

You need to change it to Bridged adapter.Ĥ. By default the network adapter is attached to NAT. Now the new window to set up the Kali Linux Virtual Box will open.ģ. Click “Devices” menu and choose “ Network Adapters“.Ģ. Open your Kali Linux Virtual Box like this. This is the preview of my ip address before I make some change.ġ. The OVA file can be now move and used where needed such as to ESXi (if the in-built upload feature is not working) or migrate to VirtualBox (You may need to install Guest Addition if so).If you want to see the tutorial how to install Kali Linux in Virtual Box, you can view here Step by step enable the network in Kali Linux: rw-r-r- 1 kali kali 3.4G Nov 10 23:18 kali-linux-rolloing.ova Kali-linux-rolloing.ova: POSIX tar archive Writing OVA package: kali-linux-rolling-amd64.ova Opening OVA target: kali-linux-rolling-amd64.ova We can now start to convert by doing the following: :~$ ovftool kali-linux-*-vmware-amd64.vmwarevm/*vmx kali-linux-rolling-amd64.ova :~$ ls kali-linux-*-vmware-amd64.vmwarevm/*vmx To start with unzip it to get access to the vmx within: :~$ 7z x kali-linux-2023.2-vmware-amd64.7z We will be using the official Kali Linux VMware image to convert. Windows: C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation\OVFTool\ovftool.exe.


OS X/macOS: /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/VMware OVF Tool/ovftool.If you already have either VMware workstation or VMware fusion pre-installed, you may already have it (else it can be downloaded as a standalone program for free). In order to convert from VMware’s VMX to a OVA file, we will use ovftool. There are times where converting between the two formats is required. The other commonly found format which is OVF, as this is a open standard ( OVA is OVF but compressed into a single file). VMware has VMX format which works for VMware products.
