For running VMWare in Kali, please follow the most recent instructions in the VMWare website.
Once installing VMWare the most recently issue I face is regarding the installation of VMWare Tools and having the local folders being shared with the virtual machine.
This is extremely helpful mainly when downloading documents, as when doing that from the virtual machine, because the network card is in a loopback, the internet connection can be very slow.
So I downloaded Autopsy 4.0.0 in my local machine and then I could share the Downloads folder with the virtual machine, and it worked as a sharm.
The other reason why I wanted to have Share Folders enabled is because I can do the analysis from Autopsy directly reading files from the /mnt folder.
Some of the links are attached to link.
But the main issue I was facing was regarding that Kali does require to have root permissions for running everything, therefore for enabling Share Folders, you need to open this application using root as well.
In order to do that, please run the following commands:
sudo vmware (one being used for dissertation)
or
sudo vmplayer
