Very slow boot in Kali Linux and Keyboard not working most of time.

[Vaibhav832]

I have installed Kali linux on my windows 11 laptop using VmWare workstation pro latest version.

Whenever i boot up my kali linux OS in vmware most times my keyboard does not work. Also booting process is extremealy slow. Previously it used to work fine but since last 5-6 days this issue started.

I also tried reinstalling, repair everything multiple times but nothing worked even I have tried running vmware as administrator but still it does not work the only option i have left with is to keep it rebooting until it works and accepts my input from the keyboard. Moreover mouse is working fine..

Is there any permanent solution on to this ?? Plz. help me...

[scott28tt]

There is an area of the forum for Workstation Pro threads, I’ve reported yours so a moderator should now move it there.

[continuum]

Try to stop  the enhanced keyboard driver - or enable it if it is not installed.

[Vaibhav832]

Alredy tride it but nothing worked.

[rafaelh]

I'm also having the exact same problem - about 1-2 minutes to boot, and the keyboard doesn't work. Tried two separate kali VMs that were previously working, and also one off the website.

[Vaibhav832]

Did you got any solutions?

If yes plz tell me too...

[rafaelh]

Not sure if it's a permanent fix, but I upgraded the compatibility version of the VM to the latest in settings, booted it up, then connected to SSH via the VM tab, and reinstalled the tools with 

sudo apt install -y --reinstall open-vm-tools-desktop fuse3

 It is still taking a long time to boot, but I can type again.

[marl_low]

I am exactly in the same situation.