
Below steps worked in older versions of VMware Workstation. Due to this change, the Install/Update/Reinstall VMware Tools menu is disabled. VMware Tar Tool for Linux virtual machine is feature-frozen at version 10.3.10, so the tar tools (linux.iso) included in Workstation Pro is 10.3.10 and will not be updated. Please download the 64 bit or 32 bit image depending on the system you have. You can get it by visiting the official download page. To install the Kali Linux, we will have to first get the installer ISO image file.

Lets gets started with Installing Kali Linux 2021 in VMware Player 16 Step 1 – Download Kali Linux ISO image

This is the download page for all the VMware products. For commercial usage, VMware Workstation Pro is more suitable.
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Earlier it was not free, but I see that VMware has made it available for free for non Commercial users. VMware Workstation player is available free of cost. But what is available is enough for most of the home users. That is, it is just as VMware Workstation Pro with lesser functionality.

VMware Workstation Player is the limited capability free version of VMware Workstation Pro. You can also watch my YouTube video on this topic. In this blog post, I will show you how to setup and install Kali Linux 2021.1 in VMware Workstation Player 16 which is the latest version of VMware Player.
