On most virtualisation software like VMWare’s etc, the guest machine’s hotkeys which requires ctrl-alt (such as ctrl-alt-f1 etc for tty change in Linux) can be blocked because ctrl-alt is used to release mouse/keyboard with the VM software. If you use it only occasionally, you can first temporarily disable the release hotkey by pressing ctrl-alt-space then your intended hotkey such as ctrl-alt-f1
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VMWare Tools vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod Install Issue
Trying to install VMWare tools from packages.vmware.com/tools repository in Ubuntu but getting a error while installing packages? There seems to be package dependency going back to open-vm-tools-kmod-generic but it doesn’t exist. When you try to install the next level of package, it would say
“PreDepends: vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod-… but it is not installable”
Unfortunately the VMWare Installation Guide isn’t clear on this matter whereas the Ubuntu documentation is much better. It shows that you can either use the open source version directly available via apt-get or you can build the kmod (kernel mods) from source using the source files in the VMWare repository.
Arpspoof, Tcpkill, Tcpnice Tutorial
Notes to self because I never remember
To arpspoof, turn on IP forwarding:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
with Linux (might need su) or more permanently,
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1in /etc/sysctl.conf
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