Kali VM is unusable

[involunta...@airmail.cc]

I have a Kali VM (installed in a new vm via iso). 90% of the screen is
gray. The Kali top bar appears at the bottom of the screen, and most of
the desktop is not even onscreen. Has anyone else encountered this?

[justin.h...@gmail.com]

Yes, I was able to reproduce this. No idea on a solution, though.

[spfmc...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at 8:54:27 PM UTC-8, involunta...@airmail.cc wrote:

I can reproduce the symptoms.

[J. Eppler]

Hello,

the better way is to create Kali template or standalone VM. Here is the guide:
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/pentesting/kali/

the advantage it integrates better into Qubes. The disadvantage you will not be able to use the normal menu.

[adoni...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I tried this over the weekend, but can't get it to work for some reason.

I've tried the 3 methods:

1) Create a HVM and use the offical ISO to install the system or convert a Virtual Image:

Generic libvirt error saying it couldn't start the VM after running qvm-start

2)Clone the Qubes OS Debian image and turn it into a Kali Linux distribution using katoolin:

After cloning my Debian 8 template, and modifying the repos, when I do a dist-upgrade I keep getting these errors:

E: Failed to fetch http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/python-iniparse/python-iniparse_0.4-2.2_all.deb
Unable to connect to 10.137.255.254:8082:

E: Failed to fetch http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/sshpass/sshpass_1.06-1_amd64.deb
Unable to connect to 10.137.255.254:8082:
[...]

It seems it can't connect to the update proxy for some reason... In the global settings I have Update VM set to sys-firewall, but when I go to that VM or to sys-net there is no qubes-update-proxy service.. not sure why, and not sure if that's meant to be like that or not.

3)Clone the Qubes OS ‘jessie’ Debian template, upgrade it to ‘stretch’ (Debian 9.0) and turn it into a Kali linux template:

Same issue as in 2)

Any suggestions?

[J. Eppler]

Hello,

try the following:

1) select the VM you want to upgrade in Qubes OS manager
2) do a right click and select VM settings
3) switch to the Firewall rules tab
4) enable allow full access for x minutes

try to upgrade again.

[adoni...@gmail.com]

I could swear I did try that, but I'll do it again when I get home later on and let you know how it goes.

It is very strange, cause VMs (including templates) update without any issue when doing it through the GUI (Right click -> Update VM)

[spfmc...@gmail.com]

Any way that you can try a different mirror? I just followed the (3) option successfully. However, 'http.debian.net' resolves to a different IP for me, so you might try tunneling your traffic to a different region.

[Aneer Qadri]

involunta...@airmail.cc:

> I have a Kali VM (installed in a new vm via iso). 90% of the screen is
> gray. The Kali top bar appears at the bottom of the screen, and most of
> the desktop is not even onscreen. Has anyone else encountered this?
>

I don't know if you've figured it out yet, but I also had this problem a
while ago. I reinstalled it a few dozen times and realized it was
because of the way that I configured the disks on the virtual image.
Don't encrypt the disks or use an lvm. I got it to work with using
standard partitioning.

[spfmc...@gmail.com]

I'll have to give that a try. Pretty sure that I was using LVM.