How to run Kali Linux on vmware

Complete Guide On How To Install Kali Linux In VMware

This tutorial will walk you through the difficult process of installing Kali Linux in VMware Player, a free virtual machine manager that can be downloaded from www.vmware.com.
This tutorial assumes that you have some basic knowledge of your computer (amount of RAM number of processors, etc.) This tutorial is also intended for beginners who haven’t worked with VMware or Kali Linux before.

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Step One:

First we need to download Kali from http://kali.org/downloads/. If you have a 64-bit capable computer (like me), then you probably will want the 64-bit version of Kali for performance reasons.
Expand the drop down menu’s to find the version you need. Select the 64-bit version ONLY if you have a 64-bit computer.


Step Two:
If you don’t have a torrent program, then click the link highlighted above and select “Save” when the download notification appears. Make sure you know where you saved it.


If you have a torrent program, then I highly recommend using the torrent option. Click on the Torrent link, it will open the torrent file in your browser. Just copy the URL of it and enter it in your torrent program.




Now wait for Kali to download, this might take several hours, depending on your internet speed.
Step Three:
When Kali has finished downloading, open VMware Player and click Create a new virtual machine.


Step Four: 

In the window that opens, select Installer disc image file (iso) and browse to the location of and select the Kali Linux ISO file that you just downloaded.


Once you have selected the file, click Next.



Step Five:

In the next step, select a name for the virtual machine. I’m going to name it Tutorial Kalifor this tutorial. You also need to select a location for it, I recommend creating a folder called “Virtual machines” in My Documents. Then click Next.


Step Six:

Next step, you need to select a maximum size for Kali. I recommend doing at least 30 GB’s as Kali tends to expand over time. After you’ve entered your desired value (no less than 20 GB) change the next option to Store virtual disk as a single file and click Next. 


Step Seven:

In the next window, we need to customize some hardware settings, so click on theCustomize Hardware… button.


Step Eight:

You will now be presented with a Hardware window. In the left pane select Memory in the left pane of the window, and slide the slider on the right side to at least 512 MB*. This is for performance. Since I have 8 GB of RAM on my computer, I’m going to put it at 2 GB’s (2000 Mb’s).*Note, you should give a virtual machine a maximum of half the RAM installed on your computer. If your computer has 4 GB of RAM, then the max you want to slide it to is 2 GB. If your computer has 8 GB, then you can go to a max of 4 GB etc.. 



Now highlight Processors in the left pane. This option really depends on your computer, if you have multiple processors, then you can select two or more. If you have a regular computer, with two or less, then I suggest leaving this number at one.


Moving on, click on Network Adapter in the left pane. On the right side, move the dot to the Bridged (top) option. Now click on the Configure Adapters button.


In the small window that pops up, uncheck all the boxes except for the one next to your regular network adapter and hit OK.



You can now click on Close at the bottom of the Hardware window and then click onFinish in the Wizard.


Step Nine: 

After you click Finish the window will close and the new virtual machine file will be added to the VM library. Now all we have to do is start Kali and install it! To do this, highlight the name of the newly created virtual machine by clicking on it, and click Play virtual machinein the right pane.


This will start Kali for the first time.

Step 10:

At the boot menu, use the arrow keys to scroll down to Graphical install and hit enter.


Step 11:

The next screen will ask you to select your preferred language, you can use the mouse to select this, then click Continue.


Step 12: 

On the next screen, select your location and hit Continue.


It’ll now ask you for your standard keymap. If you use the standard American English keyboard, then just click Continue.


Step 14:

Wait until Kali finishes detecting the hardware on your computer. During this, you might be presented with this screen:



Just hit Continue and select Do not configure the network at this time on the next screen.


Step 15:

You will now be asked to supply a hostname, which is kind of like a computer name. You can enter anything you want, or you can just leave it as kali. When you’re done, hitContinue.



Step 16:

Kali will now ask you to enter a password for the root (main) account. Make sure you can easily remember this password, if you forget it, you’ll have to reinstall Kali. Hit Continueafter you’ve enter and re-entered the password of your choice.


Step 17:

The next step will ask you for your time zone, select it and click Continue.


Step 18:

Wait until Kali detects the disk partitions. When you are presented with the next step, selectGuided – use entire disk. (this is usually the top option) then click Continue.


The installer will now confirm that you want to use this partition. Hit Continue.


One more question about the partition will appear. Select the option that says All files in one partition and hit Continue.


Step 19:

Confirm that you want to make these changes by selecting Finish partitioning and write changes to disk. Then hit Continue.


Step 20:

The last question! Confirm that you really want to make these changes by moving the dot to Yes and hitting Continue for the last time.



Kali will now start installing! Wait until it has completed, this might take upwards of 30 minutes.

Step 21:

Alright, Kali has finished installing and now you are presented with a window that asks you about a network mirror. You can just select No and hit Continue.


Step 22:

After a few minutes, the installer will ask you if you want to install GRUB boot loader. ClickYes and Continue.


Step 23:

The installation should now complete, and you’ll be shown with the following notification message:


Click Continue.

Step 24:

After it restarts, login to it with the user name root and the password that you created earlier. 


You’ve successfully installed Kali Linux in VMware.

Kali linux tutorial

New to Kali Linux ? or to Linux world at all ...
yes welcome to this new experience be sure you will enjoy once you start to try ...
and why not to try over and over we are learning at end and this is the most import part of it,
commands and commands almost everything in Linux need a command we are not in Windows to click we are in Linux to write!
so here is a list for some of the basic commands for Kali Linux 
lets start with details of commands
1.Command: ls
The command “ls” stands for (List Directory Contents), List the contents of the folder, be it file or folder, from which it runs. The most common options are -a (all files) and -l (long or details)
Tab completion is supported and may be configured with .inputrc
When output to file the files are listed one per line.
By default, colour is not used to distinguish types of files. That is equivalent to using --color=none.
Using the --color option without the optional WHEN argument is equivalent to using --color=always.
With --color=auto, color codes are output only if standard output is connected to a terminal (tty). 

ls

A.Command “ls -a“, list the content of folder, including hidden files the hidden files is colored blue

ls -a

 2. Command: lsblk
The “lsblk” stands for (List Block Devices), print block devices by their assigned name (but not RAM) on the standard output in a tree-like fashion.

lsblk

The “lsblk -l” command list block devices in ‘list‘ structure (not tree like fashion).
Note: lsblk is very useful and easiest way to know the name of New Usb Device you just plugged in, especially when you have to deal with disk/blocks in terminal.
3. Command: sudo
he “sudo” (super user do) command allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser or another user, as specified by the security policy in the sudoers list.

exp: root@Kali:~# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa

Note: sudo allows user to borrow superuser privileged, while a similar command ‘su‘ allows user to actually log in as superuser. Sudo is safer than su.
It is not advised to use sudo or su for day-to-day normal use, as it can result in serious error if accidentally you did something wrong, that’s why a very popular saying in Linux community is:
“To err is human, but to really foul up everything, you need root password.”

4. Command: mkdir
The “mkdir” (Make directory) command create a new directory with name path. However is the directory already exists, it will return an error message “cannot create folder, folder already exists”.

exp: root@Kalitut:~# mkdir Kalitut

Note: Directory can only be created inside the folder, in which the user has write permission. mkdir: cannot create directory `Kalitut‘: File exists
(Don’t confuse with file in the above output, you might remember what i said at the beginning – In Linux every file, folder, drive, command, scripts are treated as file).

5.Command: chmod
The Linux “chmod” command stands for (change file mode bits). chmod changes the file mode (permission) of each given file, folder, script, etc.. according to mode asked for.
There exist 3 types of permission on a file (folder or anything but to keep things simple we will be using file).

Read (r)=4
Write(w)=2
Execute(x)=1

So if you want to give only read permission on a file it will be assigned a value of ‘4‘, for write permission only, a value of ‘2‘ and for execute permission only, a value of ‘1‘ is to be given. For read and write permission 4+2 = ‘6‘ is to be given, ans so on.
Now permission need to be set for 3 kinds of user and usergroup. The first is owner, then usergroup and finally world.

rwxr-x--x   abc.sh

Here the root’s permission is rwx (read, write and execute).
usergroup to which it belongs, is r-x (read and execute only, no write permission) and
for world is –x (only execute).
To change its permission and provide read, write and execute permission to owner, group and world.

root@Kali:~# chmod 777 abc.sh

only read and write permission to all three.

root@Kalitut:~# chmod 666 abc.sh

read, write and execute to owner and only execute to group and world.

root@Kalitut:~# chmod 711 abc.sh

Note: one of the most important command useful for sysadmin and user both. On a multi-user environment or on a server, this command comes to rescue, setting wrong permission will either makes a file inaccessible or provide unauthorized access to someone.

6.Command: tar
The “tar” command is a Tape Archive is useful in creation of archive, in a number of file format and their extraction.

root@Kali:~# tar -zxvf abc.tar.gz (Remember 'z' for .tar.gz)
root@Kali:~# tar -jxvf abc.tar.bz2 (Remember 'j' for .tar.bz2)
root@Kali:~# tar -cvf archieve.tar.gz(.bz2) /path/to/folder/abc

Note: A ‘tar.gz‘ means gzipped. ‘tar.bz2‘ is compressed with bzip which uses a better but slower compression method.

7. Command: cp
The “copy” stands for (Copy), it copies a file from one location to another location.

root@Kali:~# cp /home/user/Downloads abc.tar.gz /home/user/Desktop (Return 0 when sucess)

Note: cp is one of the most commonly used command in shell scripting and it can be used with wildcard characters (Describe in the above block), for customised and desired file copying.

8. Command: mv
The “mv” command moves a file from one location to another location.

root@Kali:~# mv /home/user/Downloads abc.tar.gz /home/user/Desktop (Return 0 when sucess)

Note: mv command can be used with wildcard characters. mv should be used with caution, as moving of system/unauthorised file may lead to security as well as breakdown of system. 


9.Command: pwd
The command “pwd” (print working directory), prints the current working directory with full path name from terminal.

root@Kali:~# pwd
/home/user/Desktop

Note: This command won’t be much frequently used in scripting but it is an absolute life saver for newbie who gets lost in terminal in their early connection with nux. (Linux is most commonly referred as nux or nix).

10. Command: cd
Finally, the frequently used “cd” command stands for (change directory), it change the working directory to execute, copy, move write, read, etc. from terminal itself.

root@Kali:~# cd /home/user/Desktop
server@localhost:~$ pwd
/home/user/Desktop

Note: cd comes to rescue when switching between directories from terminal. “Cd ~” will change the working directory to user’s home directory, and is very useful if a user finds himself lost in terminal. “Cd ..” will change the working directory to parent directory (of current working directory).

Now i will leave you with few more commends

File Operations:
pwd                        Print Name Of Current/Working Directory
The pwd is an acronym for print working directory. The pwd command is considered as one of the most frequently used commands on Linux, AIX, HP-UX, *BSD, and other UNIX like operating systems along with the ls, and cd commands. It can be used for the following purposes under Apple OS X or UNIX or Linux operating systems:
=> Find the full path to the current directory.
=> Store the full path to the current directory in the shell variable.
=> Verify the absolute path.
=> Verify the physical path i.e exclude .

cd                            Changing The Working Directory
cp                            Copy Files Or Directory
rm                            Remove Files And Directory
ls                              List Of Directory Contents
mkdir                       Make Directory
cat                            Concatenate Files And Print On Standard Output
mv                            Move Files
chmod                      Change Files Permissions

Know Your System                                                 
uname                      Print System Information
who                         Show Who Is Logged On
cal                           Displays Calculator
date                         Print System Date And Time
df                            Report File System Disk Space Usage
du                            Estimate File Space Usage
ps                            Displays Information Of Current Active Processes
kill                          Allows To Kills Process
clear                        Clear The Terminal Screen
cat /proc/cpuinfo          Cpuinfo Display CPU Information
cat /proc/meminfo          Display Memory Information

Compression
tar                        Store and Extract Files From An Archive File
gzip                       Compress Or Decompress Named Files

Network
ifconfig                   To Config Network Interface
ping                       Check Other System are reachable from The Host System
wget                       Download Files From Network
ssh                        Remote Login Program
ftp                        Download/Upload Files From/To Remote System
last                       Displays List Of Last Logged In User
telnet                     Used To Communicate With Another Host Using THe Telnet Protocol

Searching Files
grep                       Search Files(s) For Specific Text
find                       Search For Files In A Directory Hierarchy
locate                     Find Files By Name