

The known issues under this section is only applicable when upgrading from the VMware Player 3.1 release candidate to the current VMware Player 3.1 release. An unrecoverable error occurs when you select the Novell NetWare, Sun Solaris, or Other guest operating system type in the New Virtual Machine wizard. Unity mode does not work with an Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit guest operating system. When you install VMware Tools on an operating system that uses a post-2.6.34 Linux kernel, the vsock.ko module fails to build. The vmxnet and vsock guest modules fail to compile on operating systems that use post-2.6.32 Linux kernels.

You will find multiple files there, however, you just need to click and open only the VMX extension file, here in our case it is .- When you install VMware Player on an operating system that uses a post-2.6.34 Linux kernel, the vmmon module fails to compile. sudo apt-get install -y linux-headers-$(uname -r), sudo apt-get install build-essential, sudo apt get install open-vm-toolsĪfter extracting the folder, open it. Everything it updated, etc, and I have run these commands. I have the bundles downloaded and installed.

I'm trying to install VMWare player on Kali. One thing to mention is that a built in wireless adapter will not work with VMware and Backtrack, a Backtrack wireless USB adapter will have to be bought which is why I have been reviewing Backtrack compatible USB adapters in other post. Install VMware first then add the Backtrack VMware image software into it. It does not have all the options of VMware workstation but does work.The download for the newest Backtrack 5 installs and so can be found here -5-download. VMware player is the best bet because it is free and will run Backtrack. There is a 30 day free trial for VMware workstation if you want to check it out. VMware workstation is not exactly cheap although there is a free version, but anyone who has used torrent or other P2P utilities know that getting things such as this is easy.
