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1. Login to the virtual machine with root, and run apt update && apt upgrade. Reboot if necessary.
2. Install cloud-init: apt install cloud-init
   1. Run dpkg-reconfigure cloud-init and for metadata services, select only Config Drive, EC2 and Openstack.
   Edit the file 
   1. Add datasource_list: [ OpenStack, ConfigDrive, Ec2 ] to /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg
   and change the line disable_root: true to disable_root: false
3. Run systemctl enable cloud-init
4. Run systemctl enable cloud-final
5. Edit the file /etc/default/grub, and make sure that the variable GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT contains console=ttyS0 console=tty0 (if there's other content in this variable that's fine. Just add this to the end of the string.
   NOTE: remove quiet
   
   1. Run update-grub
6. Edit /etc/lsb_release to have the version number, not kali-rolling in DISTRIB_RELEASE
   1. If this is not done, virt-sysprep will fail

Enable ssh server

1. systemctl enable ssh

Enable vncserver for

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user "kali", and add it to upstart

1. Install tightvncserver
2. Run vncserver
   1. Enter the password "kaliVNC" twice
   2. When the command returns, kill the vncserver with vncserver -kill :1

3. Create /usr/local/bin/vncserv and paste this content

   Code Block
   language bash collapse true
   #!/bin/bash PATH="$PATH:/usr/bin" DISPLAY="1" DEPTH="24" GEOMETRY="1280x960" OPTIONS="-depth ${DEPTH} -geometry ${GEOMETRY} :${DISPLAY}" case "$1" in start) /usr/bin/vncserver ${OPTIONS} ;; stop) /usr/bin/vncserver -kill :${DISPLAY} ;; restart) $0 stop $0 start ;; esac exit 0

   
   

4. Create /lib/systemd/system/vncserv.service and paste this content

   Code Block
   language bash collapse true
   [Unit] Description=VNC Server [Service] Type=forking ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/vncserv start ExecStop=/usr/local/bin/vncserv stop ExecReload=/usr/local/bin/vncserv restart User=rootkali [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

   
   

5. Run systemctl daemon-reload; systemctl enable vncserv

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