Installing BT3 beta in VMware Workstation 6 directly from the iso file

[Anthony2oo5]

When trying to run the configure tool. Il try again later and report the exact message.

[Tomek]

Excellent guide, I followed this and it worked perfectly. Thanks.

[Headshot]

Tested! Working Perfectly!
Great Tutorial!

(btw isn't this a tutorial?)

[aix59]

Looks great and all... But aren't you limited to using USB WiFi cards if you
were doing wifi pentesting?

[PrairieFire]

Looks great and all... But aren't you limited to using USB WiFi cards if you
were doing wifi pentesting?

Yes, there are many more tools that do not require wifi in BackTrack.

[si13nt]

Yes, there are many more tools that do not require wifi in BackTrack.

right, there's more in BackTrack and yes you are 'limited' to usb wifi cards. for me, this works almost fine. i'm only missing the injection feature with my zd1211rw ZyXEL usb-stick (hxxp://forums.remote-exploit.org/showthread.php?t=10241&page=2).

[imported_EvilMonkey]

Hi, first of all thanks to all the people who have made BT3 possible and waiting for BT3 final eagerly. Now before starting the installation make sure the MD5 checksum of the original and the downloaded BT3 iso file. Assuming that VMware Workstation installed lets move forward and install BT3.
-First create a virtual machine with following configurations:-

Now after the machine has been created click on the name of the virtual machine just created in the sidebar on the left side and then under command options click on Edit virtual machine settings. Click Cd rom and change the settings from Use physical drive to Use ISO image and click on browse to select the saved BT3 iso image and save the settings.
-Now click o play button on the tool bar to run the Virtual machine and select any of the options from the boot menu.
-After it has booted into BT3 open the Terminal window and use following commands.

-Now go to Backtrack from the KDE menu and click on Install Backtrack
Keep the configurations as follows:-

Installation will hangs at 42% and 81% and it takes about 15 minutes or so to install completely.
Then reboot the by selecting Logoff from KDE menu and voila BT3 is installed in VMware.
enjoy...

hey thanks lol it worked on Vmware server too, after changing the To EXT3

Evil Monkey

"Sharing is caring but caring is scaring"

[chizh]

works also fine in VMware Fusion (MacBook Pro, Core 2 Duo).

for the vmware tools:
- Virtual Machine -> Install VMware Tools
- mount the device (was hdc here) and extract the tar.gz file
- get kernel sources from wiki.remote-exploit.org and extract them to /usr/src/linux/
- use the installer script 'vmware-install.pl'

the vmware tools scripts under /etc/vmware-tools wont work properly. for now, i've disabled the execution of these script in the vmware toolbox until i've got them working. will post news here.

is it working with inbuild Extreme card? I have Macbook c2d with atheros 0x168c:087 card and after instalation of VMware Tools iwconfig shows nothing ... no wireles extenstion.
tryed modprobe ath_pci, bud still nothing .. it shows after dmesg ath_pci tained kernel. im stuck..

does it working on your inbuild card with VMware and BT3?

[si13nt]

nope, you need an usb-dongle for wlan stuff.

[craigmac]

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the tutorial, it worked great for me included installing VMWare tools. There were a few issues I hit, and I thought I might as well share them and how I found a solution.

I'm using VMWare Fusion 1.1.1 on a Macbook.

fdisk runs a check on every reboot. - I fixed this by rather than creating ext2 partitions, I changed this to ext3. No more fdisk.

Vmware tools installed fine, I think the only dir change needed was for the init.d scripts. The only thing that doesn't work is the vmhgfs drivers which allows you to share files. I fixed this by;

1. Extract the VMWare tools tar.gz
2. cd ~/vmware-tools-distrib
3. untar lib/modules/source/vmhgfs.tar
4. edit vmhgfs-only/compact_slab.h
5. Change the following lines

if LINUX_VERSION_CODE <

KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 22) ||

defined(VMW_KMEMCR_HAS_DTOR)

with

if LINUX_VERSION_CODE <=

KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 22) ||

defined(VMW_KMEMCR_HAS_DTOR)

6. re-tar vmhgfs-only as vmhgfs.tar and replace the original in /lib/modules/source/vmhgfs.tar
7. run sudo vmware-config-tools.pl

Hope that helps

Craig