However, there may be some occasions where you need to reinstall the vmtools manually. When Kali is installed it is able to detect whether is its installed in a virtual machine, and should then enable the VMtools package as part of the install. Synchronizes the time in the guest operating system with the time on the host.Inability to copy and paste and drag-and-drop files.Low video resolution and Inadequate color depth.Having the vmtools package installed brings a number of improvements to the running of the virtual machine, including helping with the following: I know this is not the ideal/perfect fix, however it was enough to get Unity mode working for me.If you are running Kali Linux on VMware Workstation or on a ESXi host you should ensure that the VMtools package is installed and working correctly. Please note that is the backtick/grave character(` on key with tilde ~), not an apostrophe (‘) My primary intent was to use Unity mode, since some basic functionality was already working with the default install (such as not needing ctrl-alt to move mouse to host OS).Īround line 844, change the following line: Use of uninitialized value $subLevel in addition (+) at /usr/bin/ line 4859.

Use of uninitialized value $subLevel in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/ line 5325.Īrgument '12-kali1-amd64' isn't numeric in multiplication (*) at /usr/bin/ line 4859. Use of uninitialized value $subLevel in split at /usr/bin/ line 5324.

While attempting to get a fresh VM of Kali Linux (3.12.6-2kali1,3.12-kali1-amd64) to install VMWare Tools (8.8.0 build-471268), I ran into the following errors (among others).

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