How do I make the VirtualBox guest use the NVidia graphics? Host setup:.
Windows 7 x64. NVidia Optimus. In NVIDIA Control Panel, I explicitly selected High-performance NVIDIA processor for: C: Program Files oracle VirtualBox VirtualBox.exe C: Program Files Oracle VirtualBox VBoxSVC.exe.
When VirtualBox is running, then the NVidia software does not list it as application that uses the NVidia GPU. Therefore, I assume that VirtualBox indeed does not use the Nvidia GPU. Guest:. Windows 7 x64 (i.e.
Using Nvidia Geforce GT 650m GPU on Kali Linux in VirtualBox. I have tried all the other available posts but found nothing. Lspci| grep -i vga 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Graphics Adapter This is what is listed in kali linux as my VGA GPU. If virtualbox is not compatible.
Same as host). Guest Additions installed. 3D acceleration enabled in VirtualBox settings: Display / Video / Enable 3D Acceleration. What, an OpenGL capable application reports as video adapter: Humper Chromium OpenGL version: 2.1 Chromium 1.9 Render version: 2.0 Shading Language: 1.40 - Intel Build 9. Driver Date: NA Driver Version: NA Maximum Texture size: 8192 x 8192 Z-Buffer depth: 32bits Maximum Viewport size: 8192 x 8192 Total Video Memory: 64 MB To me it looks like the virtual machine does use 3D hardware acceleration of the host, but unfortunately the Intel one. Giving the guest full GPU access is probably not possible.
If a virtual machine had direct access to your GPU while your host was using it, Bad Things TM would happen because sharing memory between two effectively different computers is not a thing; pointers and addresses and whatnot would be very different between them. (No consumer-available card supports servicing two computers at once.) There are, however, some things you can try. First, set your preferred graphics processor to the good one in the NVidia Control Panel ( 3D Settings → Manage 3D settings → Preferred graphics processor). That might make VirtualBox go with the NVidia card for OpenGL.
If that doesn't help, try on the guest. Finally, you can try to pass the GPU through to the virtual machine, but this will only work for PCI cards and I wasn't able to find whether yours is PCI, and even so, you stand a good chance of ripping the GPU away from the host or causing other problems.
Using Device Manager, find the PCI address (bus, device, and function) for the good card. Set your VM's chipset to ICH9; this didn't cause any death or destruction when I tried it. Open an administrative command prompt and navigate to the VirtualBox folder ( Program Files Oracle VirtualBox ) and do this: vboxmanage modifyvm 'Your VM Name' -pciattach BB:DD.F@bb:dd.f Replace Your VM Name as appropriate. BB is the bus number of your GPU on the host; DD is the device; F is the function. After the @, enter the PCI slot that it will be on the guest. For example: vboxmanage modifyvm 'Windows 7 x64' -pciattach 01:[email protected] I hear that GPU passthrough is more likely to be possible on a Linux host. The premise that attaching a GPU to a VM is a 'Bad Thing' is incorrect; there is a large community of people that want to do it to create gaming VMs on bare-metal hypervisors.
If one wanted to do this in Linux, it would require blacklisting the PCIe GPU so the kernel only goes to the chipset graphics; this prevents the 'shared memory' problems. Preventing Windows from picking up the card is probably the hardest issue to solve for this question, and it would likely require disabling the device or uninstalling optimus and the nvidia driver. – Aug 4 '17 at 1:26.
There are issues in getting the Kali Linux to display in, most notably in getting the 1920×1080 resolution. Will fix that also. Lets get started Step 1 – Download Kali Linux ISO image To install the Kali Linux, we will have to first get the installer ISO image file. You can get it by visiting the official page. Please download the 64 bit or 32 bit image depending on the system you have. Dont get confused by the many options available such as Kali Linux 64 bit Mate or Kali Linux 64 bit Xfce.
They are all the same except for the desktop environment. LXDE, Mate, Xfce are various open source desktop environments. I use Kali Linux 64 bit, but the choice is yours. It does not really matter. Just remember that Kali Linux 64 bit Light is the minimal distribution which will not contain all the features. You will have to install the tools you want later on.
There is also an option to download the VMware image directly. But I prefer to create my own Virtual Machine which has all the tools installed, which this blog is all about. Since the file size is large, around 3 GB, I prefer to download via torrent because it is fast and flexible.
Kali Linux Official Download Page Step 2 – Locate the downloaded file You can find the downloaded image file in the downloads folder, if you have not changed the default settings. The filename would be something like kali-linux-2018.3-amd64.iso. If you have downloaded through torrent, the ISO file will be downloaded in a folder, folder name would be something like kali-linux-2018.3-amd64.
Step 3 – Open VirtualBox Lets start the installation process. Open VirtualBox.
If you don’t have it installed already, please visit my. Step 4 – Launch VirtualBox Create Virtual Machine installation wizard. You can launch this by clicking New gear symbol in blue in the left side of the menu bar. The keyboard shortcut is Ctrl + N on Windows.
VirtualBox – Home Screen In the Create Virtual machine dialog box, enter a Name for the Virtual machine. This can be anything you want.
VirtaulBox will also create a folder by this name in your computer to store the virtual machine files, path to which is your users folders which typically is something like “C: Users User name VirtualBox VMs” by default. User name is the name of the user you are logged in as in windows which will vary for all of us.
Select Click next to continue. Step 5- Create Virtual Machine Wizard – Specify memory size In this dialog box you will have to specify the RAM that you want the virtual machine to have. You can enter a value in the multiples of 1024 MB which stands for 1GB of Ram.
So for 2 GB it would be 2048 MB. You could also use the slider to specify the RAM. Click on next to continue. VirtualBox – Create Virtual machine- Storage on Physical hard disk dialog box screenshot Step 9- Create Virtual Machine Wizard – File location and size Please specify the name of the folder that will be created and also the folder location.
I choose the default location and provide a name such as kali 2017. This dialog box also asks you to specify the disk capacity. This is the maximum amount of disk space it will utilize once the Virtual Machine is created.
Maximum disk size is 2 TB. I was having problems creating Kali Virtual machine if the disk size was less than 30 GB.
![Virtualbox Virtualbox](http://docs.kali.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/virtualbox-tools.png)
I created the Virtual machine by choosing 60 GB. Since you have selected dynamically allocate disk space in previous steps, 60 GB will not be blocked in your hard drive. Once you have tour VM ready, total hard disk space consumed would be around 13 GB which can expand dynamically till what ever size you specify here. Use the slider to select 60 GB disk space and click Create. VirtaulBox – Create Virtual machine – file location and size dialog box Step 10- VirtualBox Manger – Virtual machine created You should now see VirtualBox Manger and and a new Virtual machine Kali in poweroff state. We will have to power on the virtual machine to begin the installation process of Kali Linux in the newly created virtual hard drive. But before we power on the virtual machine, there are more settings that needs to be done.
Open the settings dialog box by right clicking on the Virtual machine name or in the menu go to Machine - Settings. You also see Settings button in the menu bar. For this to work select the virtual machine and click on settings. Kali Linux desktop VirtualBox no full screen Step 32 – To Install VirtualBox Linux tools please follow the below steps: You should have internet connection for this to work. Open terminal in Kali Linux.
Update the Kali Installation. Type the following command in the terminal and press enter. Wait for the process to complete. Apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade. Type the following command in the terminal and press enter.
Apt-get install linux-headers-amd64 The process will take sometime to complete. Press Y for yes if asked for confirmation and wait for the process to complete. A very big thank you for this tutorial, I have been using kali for months, I was introduced to kali Linux by a friend of mine, who is a pen tester, but the issue I have here is switching to full screen I have followed your tutorial and I do as you say, but still am still finding it difficult to enjoy full mode, am just pissed off, I envy you for knowing all these issues and fixing them, but I don’t know why it didn’t work for me, am using the latest version of Kali, I left parrot OS because I wanted to try kali Linux, but right now am sucked, can I share my screen team view with you? So you can help me fix this prob please, am wanna be able to enjoy the full screen mode, bro help me.