Kali Linux Open-VM-Tools Autostart

I have a Kali Linux virtual machine with the open-vm-tools package installed. Unfortunately the service did not setup to autostart on boot. This of course means I don’t benefit from the enhancements and functionality provided by the tools.

 

Check Service Status

To check whether the service is running we can leverage the service command from the CLI. To view the status of all services we use service –status-all

root@KALI:~# service --status-all

To view the status of an individual service we make use of the service name.

root@KALI:~# service open-vm-tools –status

 

Start Service

To manually start a service we can use the following command.

root@KALI:~# service open-vm-tools start

 

While this is great what we really want is the service to automatically start on system boot.

root@KALI:~# update-rc.d open-vm-tools enable

 

2 thoughts on “Kali Linux Open-VM-Tools Autostart”

  1. ok. leaving msgs on posts can produce weird or unwanted results. My problem is different in some ways, please help if you can anyone. I have kali VM which after installing open-vm-tools works fine, but on every boot up I need to re-install tools to get full screen etc. tried everything, yep someone will direct me to another post, but not always helpful.

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    • Hi Adrian,

      This might sound a silly question so apologies but you’re definitely installing to the local drive and not running it as a ‘live’ install? I’ve never come across a situation like you describe when running and using apt to install so it’s certainly a strange one. Feel free to share more information and let’s see if we can figure it out.

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