Vmware vs virtualbox 2017 how to#

Copy the file with the file name something like this VMware-toolsвЂ¦.tar.gz to the desktop.

If you donвЂ™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 etcвЂ¦ 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.

Please download the 64 bit or 32 bit image depending on the system you have. You can get it by visiting the official download page. To install the Kali Linux, we will have to first get the installer ISO image file. 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 2021.1 in Hyper-V, Please follow my post here.To Install Kali Linux 2021.1 in VMware Workstation Player 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 2021.1 in VirtualBox 6, please follow my blog to here.

If you are using earlier versions of VMware Workstation, I recommend, you switch to the latest version of VMware Workstation which is Version 16.

Vmware vs virtualbox 2017 how to#

In this blog post I will show you how to install Kali Linux 2021.1 in VMware Workstation 16 which is the latest version of VMware Workstation. The latest version of Kali Linux 2021.1 has been released.