

Once you login, you can see the desktop in full screen mode which stretches up to the complete screen. Once the system restarts, you will be prompted to login.Once completed, restart your VM by going to VM->Power->Restart Guest You will see more prompts, except the defaults by clicking enter.


Goto the folder vmware-tools-distrib on desktop by entering the command cd /Desktop/vmware-tools-distrib.Open terminal by going to System Tools -> terminal.You will see that the file is extracted to the folder vmware-tools-distrib. Right click on this file on the desktop and click Extract here.Copy the file with the file name something like this VMware-tools….tar.gz to the desktop.If you don’t, then click on Places in the menu, Places->VMwre Tools. You will see VMware tools Icon on the desktop.This will not work now for latest releases of Linux operating systems such as Redhat 8, Kali Linux 2021 etc… Please ignore the below steps for VMWare Workstation Player 16. Below steps worked in older versions of VMware Workstation. Due to this change, the Install/Update/Reinstall VMware Tools menu is disabled. VMware Tar Tool for Linux virtual machine is feature-frozen at version 10.3.10, so the tar tools (linux.iso) included in Workstation Pro is 10.3.10 and will not be updated. Scroll down to the Live Boot section and click on it. You can get it by visiting the official download page.

KALI LINUX VM INSTALL
To install the Kali Linux, we will have to first get the installer ISO image file. Lets gets started with Installing Kali Linux 2022 in VMware Player 16 Step 1 – Download Kali Linux ISO image If you want to install previous version of Kali Linux which is 2020 in VMware Workstation 16 Pro, please follow my post on here.To Install Kali Linux 2022.2 in Hyper-V, Please follow my post here.To Install Kali Linux 2022.2 in VMware Workstation pro 16, Please follow my post here.To Install Kali Linux using Kali Linux official Image, please follow my post here.You can also install Kali Linux 2022.2 in VirtualBox 6, please follow my blog to here.This is the direct link to download VMware Workstation Player 16. This link will always remain valid even when newer versions of the products are released. From here you download any VMware Products. You will have to scroll down to VMware Player option to see the download link. This is the download page for all the VMware products. For commercial usage, VMware Workstation Pro is more suitable where you will be able to run and manage multiple VM’s at the same time.
KALI LINUX VM FOR FREE
Earlier it was not free, but I see that VMware has made it available for free for non Commercial users. VMware Workstation player is available free of cost. But what is available is enough for most of the home users. That is, it is just as VMware Workstation Pro with lesser functionality. VMware Workstation Player is the limited capability free version of VMware Workstation Pro. You can also watch my YouTube video on this topic.
KALI LINUX VM HOW TO
In this blog post, I will show you how to setup and install Kali Linux 2022.1 in VMware Workstation Player 16 which is the latest version of VMware Player.
