Configuration lost on VM reboot

[httpspraveen]

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 .

[Technogeezer · Accepted solution]

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.

[httpspraveen]

How do i run from hard drive?

[httpspraveen]

but how do i fix this ? pls help

[Technogeezer]

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: 

• download the Kali Bare Metal installation media for Apple M1 (not 64-bit or 32-bit as both of those are Intel arcitecture, not ARM), and install it according to Kali documentation or
• boot the Kali Live environment and they say they have a “Graphical installer” option at the boot prompt. Again, follow Kali documentation.. 
  
  

it’s not that much different than installing it on a physical machine. 

[httpspraveen]

 

 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.

[ColoradoMarmot]

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)

[Technogeezer]

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.

[Technogeezer]

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.

[bugcrowdhack3rs]

Keep facing the black screen after I select graphics install 

[bugcrowdhack3rs]

downloaded the old image 2022.1 http://old.kali.org/kali-images/kali-2022.1/ and it worked with graphic installer. 

[Technogeezer]

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.