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Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. The file explorer will open, now find and select the ISO image of Kali. Now the Vmware will need to know what kind of guest operating system you are about to install on it.
As the Kali is Linux based, we will select the Linux option and from version select the ubuntu 64 or 32 bit depends upon the downloaded iso image.
To identify the installed operating system on Vmware in future; we should give some name to it. We are giving it a Kali Linux but you can give whatever you want. To install the operating system on Vmware we need to assign virtual disk space. The 20Gb is recommended, however, you can give more, solely depends on your requirement.
On the left side, all the hardware options can be found for Virtual machine. In the same way, the CPU cores for the Kali virtual machine can be increased from here. Once you power on the Kali VM, the boot menu will appear.
Use the arrows keys and select the Graphical install option. By default, the language of the Kali distro is English but one can change that while the installation. Select the one language you comfortable with and click on continue. To configure further settings such as time zone, select the country where you are living and click on the continue button. If you are using some different language keyboard other than English then select that.
Otherwise, American English and continue with that. To identify the Vmware Kali Linux on the network, we need to give it some name i. If you are using the system in your home network then you can give anything. Like we have given it H2smedia. We are setting up the Kali Linux for personal usage, so no need to add anything for Domain name. Leave it blank and continue. This is an important step.
Here the Graphical installer will ask you to enter a password for the root user of the system. Enter the password which you want to set, two times and continue.
To configure the clock of the Kali Linux select the time zone of your country. However, the installer will automatically select it on your previous location selection. So, just leave this as it is and move forward. Performing partition on VMware for Kali Distro will not be much difficult. When it asks for it select the Guided — Use entire disk. After the above step, it will ask you for selecting the partition scheme, use the All files in one partition option.
To get the update for newer versions of Kali Linux installed software, select the network mirror option to YES. It is a very important step because if you accidentally select the No then the operating system will become unbootable. So, mark the YES option and move to the next step. Select the disk where you want to install the grub boot loader. As we have only a single drive, so it will show there select that and move on.
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