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theharvester.py "No such file or directory"

I just installed Kali Linux as a virtual machine in VMware Fusion, and I was following along in Patrick Engebretson's The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing, 2nd Edition, in which I was ...
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Sysprep for Linux as a Windows alternative

I want to know if exists an alternative to Sysprep for Linux. I'm working on VM using VMware and I want to clone that machine to create new ones based on this template. And I want to try to make a VM ...
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Wireless connection not figuring in VMware Workstation 10(Kali-Linux)

I just installed kali-linux on my VMware workstation 10. I had to check for the wireless connection in the kali-linux. I tried to check for the wireless-network connection(WiFi);but,it was incorrectly ...
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Unable to ssh tunnel while connected to VPN

I am trying to SSH tunnel in a guest VM that will connect to a VPN and give access to the host to otherwise blocked urls. All access is correct regarding keys. Host = Connecting via the ssh tunnel (...
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In the VMware I add the second NIC to the VM, why the directory network-scripts/ do not generate the ifcfg-eno33554984?

In the VMware workstation, I have a VM(CentOS 7.2). Before, I only have one NIC for the VM; it used the NAT network model. I configured the IP for the NIC in VM, and it works fine. But I added ...
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Can jumbo frames - MTU=9000 be set on VM machines?

We have a hadoop cluster; some of the machines in the cluster are VM machines and all others are physical machines. According to documentation, it is better to set MTU=9000 on all machines, but I am ...
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Kali linux internet suddenly working

I have been running Kali linux on vmplayer and internet was not working on it. But suddenly today it started working. I didn't install any compat drivers and my laptop is not hooked up to ethernet but ...
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Issue in finding modules to change directory service type of ESXI host to Active Directory using ansible

I am facing issue in finding modules to join ESXI host to Active Directory. I have comes across few modules like win_domain_membership like below. But it is not working out for ESXi host. Please help ...
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change IPV6 to IPV4 in linux VMWare virtual box

I am using Linux over Windows using VMware VirtualBox and set the network settings as Host-Only Network but when I am doing ifonfig in Linux I am getting IPV6 and not IPV4. I want IPV4 of eth0. I have ...
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Linux Mint VMware Player 14 with MacOs guest resolution switching to HiDPI

[EDIT] SOLVED! I uninstalled vmware-tools and I'm able to switch to the proper resolution without it reverting back to the HiDPI mode. Preface: Linux Mint 18.3 VMWare Player 14 MacOS HighSierra ...
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Debian: Boot fails when mounting sda with "invalid argument"

I am trying to move a Debian squeeze installation to VMWare VSphere 5.5 environment. However when booting the new machine after replication, the initrd/busybox gives an error, that it cannot mount the ...
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Resume interrupted duplicity backup without reading directory from scratch

I'm performing a full backup of a directory with duplicity 0.7.17. Slow I/O is the bottleneck (less than 20 MiB/s read) and the directory is large (~5 TiB). The full backup was interrupted before it ...
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Start Vmware tools in Centos

I have build and installed vmtools from source in my bit Centos 7, but have no idea how to make it run. I have files in /usr/local/bin : VGAuthService vmware-checkvm vmware-hgfsclient ...
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To install XMLSECURITY library

Trying to build wmvare tools for 32 bit Centos 7. ./configure complains regarding XMLSECURITY library: Cannot find XMLSECURITY library. Please configure without XMLSECURITY (using --without-xml-...
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Spectre variant 2 is not supported by hardware

I've installed the latest Intel microcode update to use Spectre variant #2 fix, but Spectre&Meltdown checker still shows that IBRS/IBPB cannot be used. CVE-2017-5715 [branch target injection] aka ...
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Building vmware tools for i386 architecture

Trying to build vmware tools for my 32 bit Centos 7. I took source from github Trying to follow instruction with small changes: autoreconf -i ./configure --without-kernel-modules ./configure --...
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How to measure current and peak usage of physical memory of all user-space processes in Linux?

I cannot find a source of total physical memory usage for all userspace processes on Linux. I want to measure a memory usage of a complex application, which consists of many sub-applications (many ...
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error starting vmware workstation 12 on kali linux [closed]

When I try to run vmware workstation 12, I'm greeted with the following message. I've tried the following: pointing the location to /usr/bin/gcc apt-get install libglib2.0-0 apt-get install build-...
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What is the right thing to install: open-vm-tools or vmware binary?

We have machines running Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7.x. We are not sure what is the best thing to do with regards to VMware support. We have two options install open-vm-tools (from Red Hat) ...
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vmware centos7 disk full?

I have already executed reboot, why is my disk still full? OS: CentOS7 at vmware df -h [root@localhost swoole_http_server]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/...
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Unknown interface ens33

Ubuntu 17 on VMWare - Network was working fine, suddenly not. Tried Bridging and NAT to no avail so I'm looking at the linux side. $ ifconfig -a ens33: flags=4098<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ...
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Wireless adapter no longer showing up [duplicate]

How do I verify that the wireless driver is installed on Kali Linux (VMware Player). Kali is no longer showing the built-in wireless adapter using the iwconfig command but it can still connect to the ...
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Why VMs terribly struggle with i/o when host is under heavy load i/o wise?

I noticed plenty of times already that when host OS is under heavy i/o load all VMs start to incredibly struggle with i/o up to point where they fail to even boot with systemd giving CPU stuck ...
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Mounting a 4tb lvm in Centos 7 keeps saying not enough space on device

I have a Centos 7 vm that won't boot, the journalctl says *failed to mount /sysroot. Dependency failed for Initrd Root File System. Dependency failed for Reload Configuration from the Real Root * ...
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apt-get install firefox package has no installation candidate [duplicate]

Using apt-get install firefox I get: Package firefox is not available but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from ...
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VMware Tools for CentOS

Trying to install VMware Tools in 32 bits CentOS 6.9. I do: yum install open-vm-tools Got output: No package open-vm-tools available. How to install VMware Tools for CentOS 6.9 ? UPD I did : ...
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Persistent boot order not happening after rescue and reboot from CD-ROM mounted ISO in RHEL 7.4

I mount the RHEL 7.4 ISO available in the CD-ROM and go into the rescue mode (Troubleshooting) after selecting CD-ROM option in the "One-time Boot menu". And, after reboot it is supposed to boot back ...
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What might cause the file system to go read only under vmware workstation?

I have been using various flavors of Linux (ubuntu, debian, and Kali) under VMware Workstation, running Windows 10 as the host, and have been experiencing the file systems of the guest OS's going "...
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Configure WindowsOS host such that the given address leads to CentOS 7 virtual machine in VMWare

I have the following question: How to configure WindowsOS host (native OS) such that the address: 'local.myvirtualmachine.com' leads to CentOS 7 virtual machine in VMWare? Thanks in advance.
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ifconfig command issue

My goal is to connect to centos6 machine which is sitting on VMware , using putty tool from my windows machine. To connect with putty as you know I need ip address of my Centos6 machine. Thats the ...
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high cpu usage when executing scripts on rhel 7 VM coming from rngd

I'm moving a physical server to a VM (rhel 7.3) and while running a fairly basic script I noticed that CPU usage was very high for what I was executing. After a little investigation I found that if I ...
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VMware + Androidx86 vga=ask missing resolutions

I am mounting Android in a virtual machine to debug applications from an environment that I can control more easily. I have a problem configuring full screen mode (1920x1080). In this image you can ...
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Unable to install correct Linux headers

Im trying to install VMWare workstation player on my Kali Linux Os. However, I encounter a kernel issue when trying to start VMware: C header files matching your running kernel were not found. ...
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Multipath device name doesn't display correctly

I'm playing with iscsi and I'm trying to figure out why the vendor/product names aren't showing up correctly. I've restarted all the appropriate services along with a reboot. Listed below are the ...
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How do I mount a shared VMWare folder on startup?

So I'm following this article on how to mount a shared vmware folder. I can successfully mount with the following command: mount -t vmhgfs .host:/foo /home/user/Documents/foo However, I can't seem ...
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Fedora 26: Chromium does not start

I have a fresh installation of Fedora 26 in VMWare Player (uname -a: Linux localhost.localdomain 4.12.8-300.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 17 15:30:20 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux) and my first ...
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SUSE Linux Enterprise 12: Change Hostname permanently

I want to change the hostname for a VM, but struggle to do it permanently. Already changed it via /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname, but did't work out. Does anyone have an advice? Thanks in advance.
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Connection error using SUSE/Windows with VMware

I'm trying to run a SUSE Linux VM in a Windows 10 host using VMware Workstation 12 Player. I set up a host-only connection between Linux and Windows with a static IP in Linux. Problem is that the ...
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XUbuntu 16.04 crashes when opening any browser

I recently created a new VM as a test bed for a project, however when I opened the default browser, the system crashed (black screen, then an error dialog) with the following message: VMware Player ...
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After reboot files losts and old versions restored!? Ext4

A linux 3.2.0-54-generic, Ubuntu 12.04 on Vmware was rebooted and then files disappeared and very old versions appeared on /etc. It gave problems at booting, I copy part of dmesg [ 18.824677] ...
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squid: Illegal Instruction (core dumped)

OS: Oracle Solaris 11.3.1.5.2, CPU Arch : X86 I recently installed Squid by doing $ pkg install squid This went fine: root@darwin1:~# pkg info squid Name: web/proxy/squid Summary: ...
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Restricting / disabling linux disk buffering in a virtual machine

Is there an intelligent way how to restrict buffering/caching in a Linux system and to make it writing on disk more or less continuously? I am asking because I am running several Linux virtual ...
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libssl1.0.0 doesn't satisfy libssl0.9.8 dependency?

In Debian Wheezy, I'm trying to install the vmware-view-client package from the Ubuntu Software Center (because the open client won't work for my situation), but dpkg can't handle it. Synaptic says I ...
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CENTOS:Problems accesing to a remote machine port

I was trying to access to a specified port of remote machine from my CENTOS machine and I am not able to connect. If I write telnet remote_machine 666 I have no response. The client machine is a ...
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How do I figure out what's freezing up my machine?

I am running Arch on this machine: 3.40GHz i7 hexacore (4930K) 16GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM 2xSamsung 840 EVO SSDs in Raid0 (using BTRFS raid) When I run VMware on my Arch with a few VMs (2 or ...
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Ubuntu VM shows 50GB, but df -h shows 30GB [duplicate]

I have an Ubuntu VM on VMWare Player, on which I can't increase the virtual disk size. Earlier I built the VM with 30G size, then I used the VMWare expand 'button' to expand to 50G. Now the VMWare ...
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TL-WN722N not usable by kali

I'm facing the same issue as many other people, but for some reason their solutions don't seem to fix my issue. Basically I bought a TL-WN722N USB-adapter from TP-Link that I finally got delivered ...
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LVM issue with VM - Physical disk not present

Am trying to troubleshoot an issue that has arisen during a DR test and admit from the outset that LVMs are not my forte. We have a RHEL6 VM running on ESXi 5.1. We are using a LUN to LUN ...
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SANE scanner access from inside a VM?

I'm using Arch inside VMware, and trying to connect to a Canon P-208 scanner. I know this scanner to be supported, it has an entry in /etc/sane.d/canon_dr.conf, but it shows up as: $ scanimage -L ...
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Yosemite + Fusion 7.0.1 now gets "Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory." and will not start any VM

I've been on Yosemite on this machine since it hit released, and on Fusion 7 since it released. Now on 10.10.1 and 7.0.1 respectively. On one machine http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/...

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