Kali Linux: WSL 2 install and GUI setup
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
- Learn how to get Kali Linux installed and running on WSL 2 on a Windows 10 computer. I'll also show you how to install applications like nmap and get a GUI working with Kali Linux. By default, when you install Kali Linux with WSL 2, you won't have a GUI, but in this video I'll show you how to get that installed and configured. Go from zero to hero with Kali Linux on WSL 2.
WSL2 is part of Windows 10, version 2004 which was released in May 2020. Rather than using a translation or compatibility layer between Linux and Windows which was used in WSL 1, WSL 2 uses virtual machine technology to allow you to run a real Linux kernel directly on Windows 10. This also allows you to run Docker within Ubuntu running on Windows 10.
Menu:
Overview: 0:00
Lab setup: 0:50
Kali website feedback: 1:01
Install Kali: 1:56
Ping network devices: 3:19
View WSL Virtual Machines: 3:40
Install nmap: 4:00
Use nnamp to scan ports: 4:28
Install Kali GUI: 6:33
Use Remote Desktop (RDP) to connect to Kali: 7:32
WSL 2 Playlist:
• WSL 2 (Windows Subsyst...
Useful commands:
nmap: sudo nmap -sS -A --open --top-ports 500 192.168.1.249
GUI install:
sudo apt install xfce4
sudo apt install xrdp
sudo /etc/init.d/xrdp start
Good Links:
What is WSL? docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wind...
WSL documentation: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wind...
WSL 2 Announcement: devblogs.microsoft.com/comman...
WSL2
Kali Linux
Ubuntu 20.04
WSL 2
WSL 1
Ubuntu 18.04
windows subsystem for linux
#wsl2 #kalilinux #windows 
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Menu:
Overview: 0:00
Lab setup: 0:50
Kali website feedback: 1:01
Install Kali: 1:56
Ping network devices: 3:19
View WSL Virtual Machines: 3:40
Install nmap: 4:00
Use nnamp to scan ports: 4:28
Install Kali GUI: 6:33
Use Remote Desktop (RDP) to connect to Kali: 7:32
WSL 2 Playlist:
ruclips.net/p/PLhfrWIlLOoKNMHhB39bh3XBpoLxV3f0V9
Good Links:
What is WSL? docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about
WSL documentation: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/
WSL 2 Announcement: devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/
You must install Windows Terminal on your Win10 host!
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Hey David I know you're busy, but Ibam really new to all of this and when it gets to the part where you type in the wsl -l -v command my powershell doesn't display the same results yours does.
Instead what it does is show the following:
Usage: wsl.exe [Argument] [Options...] [CommandLine]
Arguments to run Linux binaries:
If no command line is provided, wsl.exe launces the default shell
And it continues on into what I assume are some boilerplate options. I am not really certain as to how to effectively research this problem in order to solve it myself or what to do based off this video. Could you or anyone who knows point me in the right direction or tell me what I am doing incorrect. It was fine up until this point.
@@kymaeryk just use wsl -l
Another great use of my time... Glad I got a notification for this video... Thanks for this David - very informative...
Glad it was helpful Patrick!
Excellent video very detailed, accurate ,tons of information!!! Though I haven't learned any Linux operating system!!!
David always at it best thanks for this very informative content
Thank God, you are finally back to the UK, you must have missed your family terribly.
Finally, I have installed Kali Linux with GUI. Thank you so much !!
Glad it helped!
@@davidbombal where shuld we type the code written in 6:46
Best video, top of the top and no need to reboot the machine to Linux
I used vncserver with vncviewer. But now I see I could save my time with Remote Desktop , thank you for gui tutorial
Awesome video David, I also use xrdp/rdp to remote into my Raspberry Pi. Keep up the great work!
Thank you Nigel! Agreed xrdp/rdp is great for remote management :)
So far best RUclips channel for studying networking.
Thank you for that amazing compliment!
Nice video !
Thank you for the rdp tips to connect GUI :D
Glad it helped you Jacques!
Very good content as always! Biiig thanks!
Thank you so much. As always, a new usefull video.
Wonderful tutorial, thank you!
Excellent video! Thank you!
Hey David, really cool... Nice to see that WSL2 is a quantum leap from v1, and thanks for showing how to to use its new abilities. I would be interested in configuring Kali and its provided apps effectively (WSL, VBox, Player, Pro) for network and vulnerability scanning. Network scanning specifically for discovery of rouge and unknow devices and to run a basic fingerprint against those discovered devices to at least know if they were Linux, Windows, or another device. Zenmap is a little messy (at least to me)... But keep the WSL Series up it is great!
Thank you Kevin. I had issues with WSL 2 and VMware / VirtualBox with nested virtualization. Until they fix the issues, we are stuck using one or the other :(
I love your video, it's awesome!
Great Video , this thing mostly important for Us
Thank you
I realy appreciate what you do.Awesome Content
Thank you Madara. I appreciate that!
Very helpful, thanks David
Glad you found the video useful Joshua!
Thanks from Brazil!!!!!!! :)
Thank you for the video ❤️✌️
My pleasure 😊
Thanku so much David❤
wow, i've randomly found this vid, cuz i trynna to install macos-x in docker in wsl on w10 2004. But this definently, what i'm gonna try after that.
Just what I wanted thanks
After messing around with WSL for hours, I went back to my favorite subsystem for Linux: Linux ;)
You are just amazing
Great. Thanks!
Great 👍 from New York
thx man very informative
Glad it helped
Thanks so much David
Thank you for watching Ibrahim
Awesome .. Thanks alot Bombal
You're welcome Yaser 😊
dnet: Failed to open device wifi0
Thanks man
Great video
this is amazing
Big Fan From India ✌️
Thank you Vishw!
Great video as always David. Question - does Kali on WSL2 have undercover mode? :)
Mine works perfectly I've.also got.ubuntu on windows
Great video as usual, next video you could deep further of Kali Linux trough WSL2
Thank you David. What do you want to know about Kali?
@@davidbombal I want to know what can we actually do on WSL2 and what can't we do, can we use it to learn CEH? Make layer 2 attacks etc. Is it a toy for learning commands (and we should run it on VMWARE or clean), or can we actually use it to learn hacking? thanks
It worked! Yay!!!
Now I can use Kali without breaking windows!!
-_- I have a problem huh...?
Usefull video for beginner like me
Glad to hear that
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Glad the video was helpful :)
Love u bro....
Luv you from india you are motivation keep doing
Thank you! Will do!
Remenber...remain yours ports closed in your servers...on the contrary You'll be the next to be scanned rsss and...after that...enunerated...and then exploited!!! Nice vídeo David...
Great video -- very helpful. I am unable to ping or access any machines on my local subnet. Kali tools (nmap for example) cannot see beyond the gateway device. Any suggestions on how to be able to access the local subnet?
The command you used to install XFCE only installs an empty GUI. Yes it a Linux GUI running under WSL under Windows, but it's just an empty GUI. It serves no purpose other than as a proof of concept. If you want a useful Kali GUI use
sudo apt install kali-desktop-xfce -y
This installs XFCE with a bunch of Kali's tools already to go which is what you probably want in the first place if you're installing Kali.
Loving your videos. Specific to this one: is there any way to set a static IP address to WSL distro/instances so I can have rdp files named/set for them and double click to connect? Thank you in advance.
Good video, will I still be able to put wifi adapters into monitor mode using this method?
Could you do another vid showing how to use external usb wireless network cards please?
Well done
Thank you
Excellent video though i only watch it in 2023 👍👍👍😘😘😘
Thank you! Very useful video. Can we install Ubuntu GUI and GNS3 in wsl2?
thanks a bunch for "nmap" and Kali gui, in same way, can we install xfce + xrdp in Ubuntu for gui? how to? will you please guide us steps and command in coming video?
Thanks for the content! One question, if Windows 10 already has a GUI, why do we need a GUI for Kali? Thanks! (not rhetorical, actually wondering what the benefits - if any - to having multiple GUIs on one desktop.)
Thank You 😊
I hope the video helps you :)
@@davidbombal Every video you post is beneficial to us.
You are Superb Sir
is there a way to get the sound going through the rdp of Kali on Windows 10? It is some sort of pulse audio update and reboot or?
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Thanks a lot for the video. It seems to me that I did pretty much what was described in the video. I found the video after my install. However, I have 2 issues. My ip address changes all the time and I need to start the xrdp everyday, find the new ip address and then I can have my RDP session with Kali. This is not so annoying. The second issue I have is that I cannot make the bluetooth work. I have found a few things on the net but it never seems to work in my case. Anyway, I will keep searching.
I do have the same prob, and I am ok with it
but everytime that I run kali the GUI disappears, any possible fixes for this?
Hi David it is a really nice video . I have a question ? If It works on virtualization then it will only share the logical network adapter created by windows machine ? What about the wireless network ?
What im wondering also, probably need to install Kali compatible drivers...
Another great video! David, would you be able to make a video on how to get windows 10 on Mac?
Do you mean getting Windows 10 running on VMware Fusion on a Mac?
@@davidbombal Yes! that's right :D
That's Easy just youtube it
Thank you so much
Glad you enjoyed the video Saurabh
@@davidbombal Hi, I downloaded TCP_IP_OSI_Model.pkt from udemy's ccna course resource but when i am opening with packet tracer an error pop up "file is not compatible with this version of packet tracer ".
My Packet tracer version is 7.3.0
Can you help me with this?
I had a strange (high threat - imddos botnet user-Agent kav) network trojan event come up on my threat management detection system that came from my windows machine within a couple of days after installing Kali wsl. Copied the packet capture collected from siem for further investigation. Ended up rebuilding the windows machine without Kali wsl and everything is ok again. Going to stick with just a normal Kali install running in vm's. I would advise caution on installing Kali wsl in general.
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Great job. I already tried this. Could you maybe install gparted and format some usb. I have got some issues with that at the moment which I don't understand. Gparted doesn't run.
I'm getting a message when i lunch kali that , ( this is the minimal installation of kali linux and you likely want to install supplementary tools )
how to fix that ?
Very helpful.thanks a lot. But how can I get back to windows, after getting into kali GUI
Is this safe on my windows machine or can it open a backdoor for malware etc?
Hi David thank you for this....I have watched this 100 times today lol, I was finally able to get the GUI using info from here and different sites but I can not enable network connections in the GUI. What am I missing? Any help please?
What impact does the SSD optimization bug have on WSL2 in the Win 10 2004 version? Is it even a concern? Thanks for the information.
Thank you for the great video, David. I have a question: I'm currently using Kali Linux under WSL 1. If I install WSL2, will I be able to run the same Kali and access the tools that I'm using under my Kali WSL 1, or I will have to install the tools again for WSL 2 Kali? Thank you!
if you want the "Physical access tools" that Kali has then you'll need to reinstall in WSL2 wsl1 is just like 32 kernel api mappings using the Pico Driver (userspace) for all the kernel you need wsl2 (I don't use it because I think vm's are walled off machines - and excluded from domain policies and the like - more corp than home logic but yah.)
I Remember installed Kali 2019 under WSL 1 and use the same method at my knowlegde once you get the gui you have to install other packages manually for getting the same software as the ISO provide
This is a lightweight install. So, you would need to install nmap or any other tools that you want. If you follow what I did in the video you should get the same results as I did
@@davidbombal Thanks for the confirmation!
Try running this command
sudo apt-cache search kali-linux
This will show you a list of kali packages u can install which will give u all the tools u need and get when installing a regular iso. Everything from top10 tools to default to all the tools.
Good luck!
@@parthmehndiratta8943 that's pretty usefull thx a lot for the tips! :D
Can you do that with Cinnamon ?
If yes, how (don't know how to use CLI instruction at all) ?
Can we use Network adapter in MONITOR MODE, to run Wifite in kali ( WSL)...?
& is it possible to run Yersinia Attacks in kali ( WSL)..?
unfortunately no , its only use Ethernet virtual remote desktop connect only , try install linux with boot or virtual box instead
I haven’t tried the released version of WSL v2, but the preview versions didn’t play well with hardware device like USB. I have not used v2 since
Hi thank you very much ! i really like your videos.
I have a question, does anyone, get some trouble with the sound generally and with videos on youtube they are not smouth
Hi David I love this video and your content. But I get the following error can you help please? Failed to open directory "keverall"
error when getting information for file "/home/keveall-thinclient_drives": Transport endpoint is not connected
Is there a GUI for Ubuntu to use with WSL2?
Love you your videos by though way.
Yeah, he has another video on it
can i use the same process for ubuntu for gui installation / any other wsl2 / similar distro
Do you think KEX is better or XRDP?
I think that I like XRDP better, but I had to run "apt install -y dbus-x11" to fix an error. After that it works fine.
My only issue now is that my Kali instance gets a new IP address every time I launch it.
It's not a big deal, just an inconvenience to have to go get the new IP and insert it into Windows RDP client.
What is the best solution for that?
A good next step if you have an Nvidia graphics card is to install the Cuda core driver. That made it much snappier. So snappy in fact that Id like to have a gnome4 desktop. Is there an nmap app with a gui?
I used your Kali instructions on Ubuntu20.04, because I couldn't get the Ubuntu instructions to work.
I now get as far as the Ubuntu xrdp login screen, but it all disappears when I login.
So I went to try these instructions on the Ubuntu 18.04 and realised the ip from 'ifconfig' is the same as on the Ubuntu 20.04, and I looked at opensuse and that has the same ip address.
Since I went through the same process using xrdp trying to get them all working, if more than one machine was on I suspect it must try them in order, but unless I looked which was top of the list I wouldn't know.
what is the difference between wsl 2 running kali and a VM software running kali, and like a vm, does it give a separate hard disk space as a virtual hard disk assigned in a virtual machine software
Can you please guide me on how to enable the wireless adapter on Kali on WSL 2. Thank you.
I am having a problem , when i contect to my mobile hotspot , things seem to work fine but when i connect to my home router which has a high speed internet connection it waits for headers for a long time and then it says connection failed . Now i dont understand the reason for this . Could you please help me out with the issue
can you make a video on how to set up arch gui
David Bombal : I have done all the steps as shown but my kali linux system shows that I dont have networkmanager installed on that and hence i am unable to browse through that kali linux using wsl 2. Kindly guide me in this
Why install pentesting distro and use it with DE? DE seems useless to me since you are going to do the pentesting in terminal emulator anyways, or am I missing something here?
David a quick question in my Powershell when i try the command "wsl -l -v" it's not working, what might be the reason? My windows version is Version 1909 (OS Build 18363.900)
To update to WSL 2, you must meet the following criteria:
Running Windows 10, updated to version 2004, Build 19041 or higher.
Check your Windows version by selecting the Windows logo key + R, type winver, select OK. (Or enter the ver command in Windows Command Prompt). Please update to the latest Windows version if your build is lower than 19041. Get Windows Update Assistant.
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10
hi think your video. so could you make a video in relation to the operation of the WSL network I made an ip address on the WSL kali post I see a bridge card which is not activated yet I can ping the other machines on the network: my physical positions
and also if it is possible to create a private network with the other WSL machines without being able to access the host? THANKS
Hello sir. My question is that it still doesn't provide us with any tools but we get all the tools when we run the .iso file in virtual box so what can we do about it?
hello David, can we install ububtu as graphics interface in wsl?
hi when i try to connect my ip on remote control it appear an error
can you help me
Hi David - I was able to connect to Kali Linux through Remote Desktop using a third party Wrapper. But Once I log in to Kali Linux, nothing works, network is disabled, terminal emulator shows an error, browser if opened crashes...
what is the ip you have given to ping ?..
whether its a system default ip or u have given simply?...
Great who through. Thank you. But I have encountered the below error
Failed to execute child process "dbus-launch" (No such file or directory)
I use these steps to fix the issue.
sudo service xrdp stop
sudo apt-get install dbus-x11
sudo service xrdp start
Can you please do a video where you explain internet connectivity from WSL2 with and without VPN enabled? Its being a real tough one for me. My corporate VPN does not work with WSL2 and I had to switch back to WSL1. It will be amazing if you can show us that !
yeah, and how to get wifi working on the laptop,? All that works is the windows wifi, Do i need to install drivers for kali wif to work? Thank You.
For some reason, my rdp disconnects on all my wsl distros once i login with xorg
I tried to do this on a ubuntu wsl2 distro and when I tried to remote into it it worked but when i tried to log in the it quit
does this only work on kali?
Same for me, got login promt, but could not login.
same here and in ubuntu20.04 also. Upon entering user/pass and trying to enter a big black screen appears for miliseconds and exits. Did anyone find a solution?
he made another video explaining how to do this on ubuntu