

Your system should meet the following requirements for a proper installation of the Vmware player. Nonetheless, if you are looking for an open-source virtualization tool, you should try VirtualBox. However, Vmware is not open-source software, and it is only free for personal, non-commercial use. With this software, one can create and run an unlimited number of virtual machines. Generally, a VMware workstation is just a desktop virtualization software that permits you to run many isolated operating systems on a single host machine. Installing VMware Workstation Player on Ubuntu This is one of the best ways to use Kali, as it is completely separated from the host OS, allowing you to modify and test the software without impacting your host Operating System.īefore installing Kali Linux on our Vmware, we will first go through the installation of the workstation player. Wireless bridged networking in KVM.This article will show you how to set up and install Kali Linux in the latest VMware Workstation Player (player 16).I suspect there is some technical reason as to why but I've never been able to find it either. I too have searched in vain and never found a compelling reason behind why WiFi is unable to be virtualized. The other approach that you could try would be to utilize a USB based WiFi Adapter that may allow for access to the WiFi directly within the VM guest. I would assume this is a limitation with the BIOS'.

To my knowledge I've never seen any virtualization technologies that have directly exposed the WiFi included in a laptop, into the guests. The hardware that's present in the physical host is interacted through virtual hardware that's presented to the guest VMs through the software BIOS that the various virtualization technologies provide. The WiFi on the host is not actually directly accessible to the VMware guests, or any VM guests using other technologies such as KVM, VirtualBox, etc.
