Comments on: Install BackTrack in VMware Workstation

By: Harshit

Harshit — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:08:59 +0000

Thanks for such a well written tutorial…Worked perfectly!!

By: jojo

jojo — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:32:45 +0000

thanks the tutorial is work…

By: ali

ali — Fri, 06 May 2011 20:18:56 +0000

after the executing the given commands..will bt4 be automatically installed or still you have to install them manually..?

By: Munis

Munis — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 11:28:26 +0000

Thanks a lot I have got the solution and its working. I want to say to all of you that its a very easy and simple process so got it to use it nice.

By: iwanttosaythanks

iwanttosaythanks — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:35:54 +0000

i want to thank you for this very useful tutorial.

By: Sasa

Sasa — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:45:32 +0000

This is video i like : Run BackTrack 4 with VMWare Player (FREE)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDSxkIwvvxk

And best of, this is FREE VMware player, you can download from link you will find on YouTube.

By: MDR

MDR — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:19:09 +0000

Hi everyone!
I’m new to linux and I just tried to update BT4 linux vmware image with tips from this site

root@bt:~# start-network
Starting Network connection manager: wicd.
root@bt:~# apt-get update
…
Fetched 6409kB in 22s (288kB/s)
Reading package lists… Done
root@bt:~# apt-get install linux-source
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
linux-source-2.6.34
Suggested packages:
xmlto
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-source-2.6.34
The following packages will be upgraded:
linux-source
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 77 not upgraded.
Need to get 71.4MB of archives.
After this operation, 70.9MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
…
Setting up linux-source (3.2-bt0) …
root@bt:~#cd /usr/src
root@bt:/usr/src# tar jxpf linux-source-2.6.34.tar.bz2
root@bt:/usr/src# cd linux
root@bt:/usr/src/linux# zcat /proc/config.gz > .config
root@bt:/usr/src/linux# make scripts
scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/x86/Kconfig
root@bt:/usr/src/linux# make prepare
CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h
SYMLINK include/asm -> include/asm-x86
CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
root@bt:/usr/src/linux# reboot
…
root@bt:~# uname -r
2.6.30.9

I would like to know if it’s normal that it didn’t update kernel to 2.6.34 ?

By: awi216

awi216 — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:56:11 +0000

U have to update the vmware tools, then u can have access to configure your screen resolution beyond 1024

By: Rey

Rey — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:50:13 +0000

I have the exact same problem as Marcelo.. How can i change the resolution?

Thanks foo the above steps.

By: Marcelo

Marcelo — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:07:18 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial

I would like to change my resolution into 1366 x 768

but in the vmware bt4, the highest resolution in 1024 x 767

i also, i cannot find x11 in etc folder…

Any help on how to change the resolution in vmware ? thanks!