Simply click on the “ I Copied it” option. 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 “ “.Īs you double click to open the VMX, this will start the VMware Player and the software will ask you to tell it, whether you have copied or moved this Virtual Machine file. The downloaded image will be in compress form with 7z extension, so, right-click and extract the VDMK file present inside it.Īfter extracting the folder, open it. However, most of the modern system must go for 64-bit. There select “Kali Linux Vmware 64-bit or 32-bit” as per your installation of the virtualization platform.

To get it, we just need to visit the Kali Linux website page dedicated to Custom VM Images.

The second thing we are required to perform this tutorial is the pre-installed Image of Kali Linux for Vmware or VirtualBox, as here we are using Vmware player thus we download the one for it. Get Vmware PlayerĪlthough you would already have Vmware Player on your system, however, if not then first you should download it from the official website. It is free for personal usage and available for Windows 10/8/7 and Linux. Here are the steps to follow for downloading the custom, pre-build Kali Linux Image for Vmware Workstation Player… 1. Default Username & Password for Kali Linux image How to run VMware image in Kali Linux?

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