Kali linux updates source configuration and installs vmtools

I. updating the system

1.1 add update source address

Root@kali:~# vi / etc/apt/sources.list

Add the update source address at the end of the file and enter: wq Save

Deb http://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/kali kali-rolling main non-free contribdeb-src http://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib

1.2 Update the system

Repeat the following steps 2 times

Root@kali:~# apt-get update # only updates the index source root@kali:~# apt-get update of the package-- fix-missing # has a large number of errors when update, so there is no way to add parameters to update all packages installed on the root@kali:~# apt-get upgrade # upgrade system root@kali:~# apt-get dist-upgrade # for major version updates

Second, install vmtools

2.1 install Linux header files

Root@kali:~# apt-get install linux-headers-$ (uname-r)

2.2 install vmtools

1. Click vmware menu-Virtual Machine-install VMware Tools

two。 Double-click to open the optical drive and copy VMwareTools-10.1.6-5214329.tar.gz to the desktop

3. Double-click to open VMwareTools-10.1.6-5214329.tar.gz, and extract the folder inside to the desktop

4. Open the vmware-tools-distrib folder, right-click in the current directory and select-- Open it in the terminal.

5. Start installing vmtools

Root@kali:~/ Desktop / vmware-tools-distrib# lsbin caf doc etc FILES INSTALL installer lib vgauth vmware-install.plroot@kali:~/ Desktop / vmware-tools-distrib# chmod + x vmware-install.plroot@kali:~/ Desktop / vmware-tools-distrib# ls- l Total usage 392drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 March 17 2017 bindrwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 March 17 2017 cafdrwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 March 17 2017 docdrwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 March 17 2017 etc-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 149442 March 17 2017 FILES-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2538 March 17 2017 INSTALLdrwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 March 17 2017 installerdrwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 March 17 2017 libdrwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 March 17 2017 vgauth-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 216748 March 17 2017 vmware-install.plroot@kali: ~ / Desktop / vmware-tools-distrib#. / vmware-install.pl

6. Then go all the way back and restart the system.

After rebooting the system, it is found that the virtual machine in vmware is not full-screen. Click vmware menu-- View-- Auto-resize-- automatically adapt to the client. Then you can see that the virtual machine can be full-screen.

7. Vmtools was previously installed, but did not install successfully, prompt the following code:

A previous installation of VMware Tools has been detected.The previous installation was made by the tar installer (version 4). Keeping the tar4 installer database format.You have a version of VMware Tools installed. Continuing this install will first uninstall the currently installed version. Do you wish to continue? (yes/no) [yes] Error: Unable to find the binary installation directory (answer BINDIR) in the installer database file "/ etc/vmware-tools/locations" .Uninstall failed. Please correct the failure and re run the install.Execution aborted.

Solution:

Rm-rf / etc/vmware-toolsrm-rf / tmp/vm*

Delete and reinstall again

Reference documentation:

Https://yq.aliyun.com/articles/40014