I installed latest version of Kali linux on my Macbook Pro M1 using VMware fusion tech preview . It works fine but changes i apply inside the Kali OS are lost once i reboot the VM... Please help me resolve this .
This doesn't sound like a Fusion issue to me. Fusion doesn't revert changes made to a virtual disk unless you have a snapshot active and then manually revert the snapshot. This is something that a guest VM operating system doesn't do. I'm running a Kali virtual machine and any changes I make persist to the image.
This almost sounds like you're running a "live boot" version of Kali booted from CD/DVD and not from the hard drive. Typically changes made in a "live boot" environment will not persist across reboots.
This doesn't sound like a Fusion issue to me. Fusion doesn't revert changes made to a virtual disk unless you have a snapshot active and then manually revert the snapshot. This is something that a guest VM operating system doesn't do. I'm running a Kali virtual machine and any changes I make persist to the image.
This almost sounds like you're running a "live boot" version of Kali booted from CD/DVD and not from the hard drive. Typically changes made in a "live boot" environment will not persist across reboots.
How do i run from hard drive?
but how do i fix this ? pls help
You didn’t answer my question if you are using the Kali Live Boot environment.
Have you read the Kali documentation on how to install Kali to a hard drive? You’ve already done most of the work since you seem to be running it in a Fusion VM.
To install to the virtual machines’s hard drive either:
it’s not that much different than installing it on a physical machine.
Yes , im using kali live boot . Im booting my os from CD option shown above in image. Also ive downloaded the OS from kali site , which they have provided for arm processors.
Live boot, is exactly that. There's no way to save a configuration between boots - that's by design. You'll need a full install not a live boot in order to have persistence (same as you can't make changes to a CD-ROM live boot machine)
Thanks. This confirms that you're running the Live Boot which will not automatically save changes to the hard drive.
After doing some research, I find that the installation option from the Live Boot DVD that the documentation leads to believe exists isn't there.
I would recommend you go down the route of installing from the Bare Metal image for Apple M1. You get it from www.kali.org/get-kali, and choose "Bare Metal" instead of "Live Boot". Also make sure you get the Apple M1 image.
When you boot this image you get the following boot screen:
Choose either Install or Graphical install.
After Kali installs to your virtual hard drive you no longer need to boot from the DVD image.
Also, choose a hard disk size greater than 8GB - 20GB is probably better, and it won't all be used if the virtual machine doesn't need it.
Keep facing the black screen after I select graphics install
downloaded the old image 2022.1 http://old.kali.org/kali-images/kali-2022.1/ and it worked with graphic installer.
See the unofficial Tips and Techniques guide https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Fusion-22H2-Tech-Preview/Tips-and-Techniques-for-the-Apple-Silicon...
It has a section that discusses how to get Kali 2022.2 operational after installation.