![]() ![]() I wanted to test some changes I’d made, as well as some of my firewall rules so it was simple to kick some tests off on my Kali VM at work as I knew what the source IP would be so filtering my firewall logs to check would be easy. The main reason is rather trivial and selfish – I have a static IP address at home for my VPN as it just makes my life easier. It’s rare that I use Kali as a VM on ESXi – on Workstation, yes all the time but rarely do I leave a copy running on one of my clusters. ![]() OK now that we’ve sorted the settings let’s power on the virtual machine and see whether the ‘fit guest’ option is available to us. Let’s enable this option and then try our console resizing again. It is disabled and this is what we need to amend. I’ve highlighted the option we are interested in – ‘Enable 3D support’. OK not a problem let’s edit the virtual machine settings, specifically the virtual video card hardware settings. Hmm when I go to the ‘View’ menu option I am not given the choice, it’s greyed out. Here we have the standard VMware VM console – it’s not that big a screen to work with when you need to use it so it’s handy to be able to stretch it out and then tell the VM to fill the window. Before anyone says it, the guest tools were already installed and running as expected.Īfter a moment I remembered to check the virtual machine graphics options and that was when I found the culprit. Unfortunately it didn’t work and for a moment I was scratching my head. Once the install was complete I opened the virtual machine console and dragged it out to be larger then told the console to scale the Kali instance to fill it. Latest posts 0104-change-synology-password-cli 0105-free-git-ebook 0103-using-brew-bundle-to-backup-and-restore-mac-app-store-and-brew-apps Update macOS with an all in one alias Mac App Store Command Line Interface 0100-macos-softwareupdate-cli Markdown Crash Course Video What’s New with Fusion and Workstation File IO in Python Overview of vSphere 7 Video 0095-what_is_iso Migrating Website HTML details Tag Microsoft RD Client iOS App 0091-create_vmware_esxi_usb_install_media Intel NUC Lab Hosts Hardware Setup 0089-installng_microsoft_sql_2016 Installing the First Two Domain Controllers in the VMware ESXi 6.7 Lab Environment 0088-deploy_vcsa_in_lab Macchanger Utility, and Usage Install a Kali Linux VM in a VMware ESXi 6.7 Environment Install Ubuntu 18.04 Virtual Machine in a VMware ESXi 6.7 Environment Install xRDP on Ubuntu 18.04 Install Chromium on Ubuntu 18.04 Install OpenSSH on Ubuntu 18.04 Install VMware Workstation 14 on Ubuntu 18.I recently had a need to deploy a virtual machine (VM) instance of Kali Linux on VMware ESXi. Now with Kali installed, I have a ton of stuff to explore and lab! Open your SSH client of choice on another device, and test SSH to Kali Restart the SSH service by typing: service ssh restart Change the option PermitRootLogin to Yes. Since we are using Root to login, edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config. ![]() Type: ssh-keygen Answer file in which to save the key, and assign a password To check for, and apply all available updates, type the following: apt-get update & echo ‘y’ | apt-get upgrade & echo ‘y’ | apt-get dist-upgrade & echo ‘y’ Select Finish Partitioning, and write changes to disk Mentioned above, I’ve chosen to put everything on one partition ![]() I’ll explore best practices, and different partition scheme’s in a future lab. Setting up the disk partitions, I’m selecting Guided setup with LVM. When the boot menu appears, select Install Start the VM, and click on the little remote window, to open a remote console connection tab. The only non default item I configured, was to change the CD/DVD to DataStore ISO, and mount the Kali ISO, downloaded earlier. Name the VM, select VM options, and configure system resources. Go to download section and select you desired download.Ĭreate the Virtual Machine I’ve opened a VMware HTML5 client session with the Host, as I have not yet installed the VSCA. These image are available in a 64-bit (amd64), and 32-bit PAE (i86) formats. Here, I’m downloading the full ISO, and going to install manually, apply all outstanding updates, and install/configure SSH. If you want to run Kali Linux as a guest under VMware or VirtualBox, Kali Linux is available as a pre-built virtual machines with any guest tools already installed. Available for download are, prebuilt VM images, as well as different prebuilt ISO ’s, depending on the environment. Beginning of the Security Lab There are a few options, when it comes to Kali, and running it as a VM. ![]()
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