These can be enabled via the Windows GUI or by running the following commands in an elevated prompt. The following windows features must be enabled to run WSL 2.0
The examples below are from a system running Windows Insider build 1.1. PrerequisitesĪt the time of writing this blog post you must run Windows 10 build 18917 or higher, which means that you need to be at least on the slow ring of the Windows Insiders builds. Now let me be honest here all the information described below does already exist across various websites and forums, the primary objective of this blog post is to put it all in one place to provide others and myself with all the necessary instructions to get kali linux up and running in WSL 2.0 and use RDP to connect to the kali desktop. What’s nice about running kali in WSL is that you get easy and quick access to linux tools without having to setup and start a complete virtual machine.īut what if you want to run a tool with a GUI? Well with a few tricks that works as well. It's okay! This is Linux-style.įinally! You can use Ubuntu for whatever you want.Since Microsoft introduced WSL ( Windows Subsystem for Linux) I’ve been playing with it occasionally, in the beginning however some of the tools I wanted to use like nmap and hping3 would not work due to issues with networking in WSL 1.0, however with WSL 2.0 these issues seem to be resolved so gave it another try earlier this year in June and all worked as expected. While typing the password, you won't be able to see any characters. You will be prompted to create a sudo user account with a password. You'll see your Ubuntu instance on your Windows 11. You need to restart your computer after it has been installed. Once you have WSL2 installed, proceed to the following steps to install Kali Linux and Win-Kex. Now, Microsoft Store will download and install it automatically. Start the installation by clicking Get, then Install. You'll see the details of the distribution. My choice is Ubuntu, which is the most current stable version. You can choose a specific version if you wish. The third result is Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, the previous stable version. The second result is the same, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Ubuntu refers to Ubuntu's latest stable release. Click on the Microsoft Store result.Ĭhoose one of the Ubuntu results that you want to install. You can install other distributions listed above on your own by following the same steps. I'll show you how to install Ubuntu on Windows 11 via WSL2 as an example. Simply click on one of them to get to it. These are the store links of all available ( installable) Linux distributions on Microsoft Store. Please wait.ĭone! You can now install any Linux distribution available on Microsoft Store. Type the wsl -install command and press Enter. Windows 11 will ask you for administrator privileges. Right-click the Windows Terminal result, then click Run as Administrator. Runs with current versions of VMware and VirtualBox Small resource foot print compared to traditional Virtual Machines
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