When I opened the file /usr/bin/ with my favorite editor and searched for the string "is not a valid path to," I found this at line 6152:Īpparently, $kh_path was empty (""), and I needed to find outwhy. I needed to dig deeper into the code to understand what was going on. Īfter answeringsome questions with the default options, I ended up with the following: # tar xzvf VMwareTools-9.2.# cd vmware-tools-distrib/#. This process is not as easy as it might appear: # cp /media/cdrom/VMwareTools-9.2. My next step would be tocopy the compressed file, untar it and run the installer (the version at thetime of writing was 9.2.2-893683). This automatically mounted a virtual CD containing the installation software. To install theVMware Tools, I selected "Reinstall VMware Tools" from the "Virtual Machine" menu (Iam using VMware Fusion 5.0.3 on Mac OS X, but the same procedure should apply on otherplatforms and versions). Here is the error message Igot each time I tried to copy a file: "There was an error getting information about …"Īpparently, the VMwareTools needed to be upgraded and, believe me, it was not an easy task.
Immediately after that, I found an annoying issue when tryingto drag and drop files from the host into the VM. The first thing I did (and I guess everybodydoes) was run an "apt-get update & apt-get dist-upgrade" toupgrade the system.
So I downloaded the VMware image from the Kali Linux download page and ran it using VMware Fusion. It's built on Debian and is FHS compliant, which is a verygood thing.
I have been using Backtrack for a while now and decided toswitch to Kali Linux, a new open source distribution by the creators ofBacktrack.
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