If you have not installed WSL2, please check this article first and then come back here to start setting up your Kali Linux environment. The more information about WSL2 and its installation steps are covered in following article: These can be enabled via the Windows GUI or by running the following commands in an elevated prompt.This article assumes you have already installed WSL2 in your Windows 10. 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. 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.

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