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Importing Pre-made Kali VMware VM into ESXi

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Guide to importing Kali's prebuilt VMware Workstation VM into ESXi/vSphere: either use vCenter Converter, or upload the files to a datastore, register and upgrade the VM, then convert the VMDK.
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