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sir my wsl -- install thing is not working that installing text is not coming, it says "A connection with the server could not be established". What should i do?
David, without this Video, i doubt i would now have Kali Linux & Ubuntu running on my Win11 64bit Laptop, Thanks for your dedication, time, and your superb way of putting it across, for grassroots starters like myself. All made possible by Copy/Paste the Command prompts you kindly put in your Description. Absolute Legend! Look forward to joining & supporting your Channel, Subbed & Likes all the way! 💯👌👍
YOU JUST SAVED ME FROM THE ON GOING HEADACHE OF STRUGGLING TO FIND THE GUI COMAND ON MY LAPTOP 🎉🎉🎉Thank you for this amazing video Sir! Now, I just hope my TP Link antenna will connect like it’s supposed to.
@@backoffu just keep in mind that this doesn't install all the pen testing software that comes with Kali. However on the Kali website I found an "everything" command that installs all of those goodies. Took a little bit of time but worked great
@@CurrencyTrader1980 Yo brotha, its alerady been 5 months and whats your experience with kali on wsl2? Does everytin work on it? Is there any drawbacks that you found? I wanna get this clarified.
I get this error every time, even though I did the following instructions: "Error connecting to the KeX server. Please try "kex start" to start the service. If the server fails to start, please try "kex kill" or restart your WSL2 session and try again."
Hello David! I got Kali (with the GUI) up and running using this tutorial! I had to launch Kex just with "Kex" command to get my sound to work, but thank you for this great content!
David - your Videos Are Very Helpful And Great Without This Video I cannot Download Kali Linux like A virtual Machine and i liked And Subbed thanks for This Helpful Video
I followed your video to the letter on how to install kali Linux on windows 11 but I keep getting an error, when I type in kex to run it and or says that it was "unable to connect to socket: no connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (10061)" I find your videos very educational and informative so I only ask that you don't disregard the people that you're trying to teach and inform about this kind of digital engineering.
@@V1truvius I didn't, I can only seem to run it on Seamless mode. Windowed mode just won't work for me at all. Would love to know the fix. I tried so many things, creating my own VNC uninstalling and reinstalling.. just couldn't get it to work
i am also facing same issue , i am using latest version on Windows 11 Home and a brand new laptop , followed the instructions but not bale to get Kali Linux GUI mode
thank you soooo much !!!! i have followed other tutorials on how to get kali linux but they never worked, but this tutorial worked Thank you sooooooo much!!!!! omg
The big downside I have found by doing this is you can't attach a wifi device directly to the Kali instance. So there is no monitor mode for wifi hacking. I didn't try hashcat but I suspect you can't access the GPU either. Seems more limited than a real VM to me. I ended up just bare metal install of Kali and am very happy with that.
U cant bridge network cards and take snapshots. Wsl is good for devs i think.
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You can attach usb devices to wsl now. I was able to attach and list mine with lsusb but i couldn't yet list it in network devices. It might be possible.
Windows 11 had a lot of ease of use/quality of life upgrades for WSL2. I’ve enjoyed it so far as Windows is easier for a daily driver but being able to use kali for a few security/networking utilities and Ubuntu that I have built for managing a few raspberry pi projects.
@@mahdi-hasan Should be a similar process to this video, probably even a little simpler. Though this isn't the only option either. I've followed a few videos on getting linux guis on windows, though I found that for my needs I rarely need more than a terminal so I don't use it much anymore.
@@alexismajaw9120 that’s a bit too broad of a question, but yes it is possible to use this feature for penetration testing or unconventional access. If you do wish to test offensive security features, just remember that it is not legal or ethical to access, copy or modify files when you do not have permission.
Great video sir !!! 1. But will it come with all the functions that Kali has inbuilt in it 2. Which is better having a virtual machine with Kali installed in it or using this way of install it with WSL
i have one problem.... actually i was following all your guidance in this video but due to one mistake i have ruined everything ....while installing ubuntu suddenly it had stopped at 25% so, by mistake i had closed the powershell and when i had tried to open it asked for restart and i did but when i open powershell again i find nothing had downloaded and even wsl --install command is not working , instead some guidance mannual and flag gets opened and even though i had diownload and installed ubuntu using wsl --install -d ubuntu and it had worked but when i downloaded kali linux from ms app and used uname -a then it had shown command not found ....how can i fix all....i hope it have presented my problem in clear way....please guide me...
Sir, there is any way to use macOS Monterey like this in windows 11, i try that in vmware but when i try to implement the newest vertion of vmware tools to that it become success, but after that macOs is working with lag problem. there is any solution for that. hope you will help me! thanks.
this is amazing. im a wrinkly old IT guy. putting kali INTO windows as an app is INSANE. as of today i cant get this to work - i click on "GET" and it wont work. (but ubuntu is fine).
thank u but the start gui wont start everything els went exactly as urs but when try to run it wont work!! it shows error cant connect kex server failed to connect to port 127.0.1:1": unable to connect to socket: no connection could not be made because the target machine actively refused it (10061)
Did any of you run to this error, and has solution for it: Error connecting to the KeX server. Please try "kex start" to start the service. If the server fails to start, please try "kex kill" or restart your WSL2 session and try again. P.S Great video I love your stuff
Have you updated WSL via the command line? If not, open CMD with admin privileges & type: wsl -update It’s 2 dashes for people on looking at this comment on iOS…
That’s really great method to install kali, easy and practical. Totally better than having it on vms. One question, does it support the built-in network adapter out of the box? Or should we also use an external adapter.
What your sorry ass doesn't realise is that this is an experiment, nothing more. It doesn't have hardware access. You can't assign external WiFi cards to it. These are just useless gimmicks. The best and the recommended method will always be to use Kali in a VM or bare metal. Not like this.
sir problem How can I fix :( wsl : The term 'wsl' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the s pelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. At line:1 char:1 + wsl --install + ~~~ + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (wsl:String) [], CommandNotFoundException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
I have installed the GUI of kali linux and it was great. I am getting some problem while uninstalling this can anyone help me to uninstall this or suggest any video on how to uninstall
Thank you so much, David!! I've been having some issues running Kali-Linux in my VirtrualBox & instead i just rather went to use the kex --win -s command which has Kalki-Linux up and running in now time! Thank you sir!! "Never gonna give you up never gonna let you down!!" Q U A L I T Y !!!
It ran great up to the point I typed kali --win -s and I got a pop up saying " tigervnc viewer unable to connect to socket no connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it (10061)" and it gave me a weird IP address and I cant seem to figure this issue out so I went back to running a vm the old fashioned way :( I tried it on both of my laptops and my desktop and my desktop is a threadripper 3990wx with a 3080ti and 64gb of ram so it's not the pc haha its something about the connection it tried to make.. I found on my older laptop I had to go into wsl 1 instead of wsl 2. To even get it to work but same outcome on all three machines regardless of wsl mode 1 or 2
It's not working. WSL is not installing instead of that it showing as "The connection with the server was terminated abnormally". Could u please help me regarding this ?
Very glad to have found this video tutorial.. Very interesting and informative video, David. I currently run Kali on virtual box. Which install do you think is more beneficial for a new cybersecurity student?
Hello David, upon ruining the kex --win -s command im getting the below prompt error message from Tiger VNC Viewer How to fix no connection could be made because target machine actively refused it (10061), do you know how to fix that? Thank you,
What i found that was interesting about wsl2 is that with vcxsrv you can directly run linux apps and any gui straight within windows. Say you wanted to use Dolphin your default file explorer. You can, because your drives are in /mnt/. It takes some tweaking for those apps to actually run though (Ex. using a shell script to run exe files). But you could totally run i3wm or something else as your shell program. It would need a lot of tweaking to, say, show opened apps, but it would probably work fine. There needs to be a project set up to have a Parallels-like experience with linux on windows. That would be cool.
Hi David , Ive tried installing using this method , my WinKex server wont start. Ive checked to make sure there isn't any firewalls , I'm getting an error. do you know what the problem may be ?
Sir. I entered wrong re-enter password 5:20 in kali linux and i uninstalled it and i closed that window ,again i opened .But kali linux from microsoft store its not installing....😕
When I attempt to install it, I get an error saying: WslRegisterDistribution failed with error: 0x80004005 Error: 0x80004005 Unspecified error Can you help?
Please help me, I had installed Kali Linux as you had instructed in the video and now i need to install wifi driver which is compat-wireless driver but while installing that driver in Kali it shows an error :- /sbin/modprobe: invalid option -- 'l' /sbin/modprobe: invalid option -- 'l' Stoping bluetooth service.. Stoping bluetooth : /usr/sbin/bluetooth. bluetooth is not running ... Failed Help me please
USB Support: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/connect-usb GPU Support: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gpu-compute WSL2 uses a different IP than from Windows Host: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/faq
being a compatibility layer, wsl is mutch lighter than a VM being so able to run at native performance. as far as the choice goes i'm not confortable daily driving kali as wsl instance because being nat-ed, wsl is not exposet to the net and trafic is routed through windows which makes port forwarding the only painful option. so until bridged networking is added you cannot reach back kali (see basic reverse shell as an example) without the painful and "error" prone port forwarding and is not really straight forward if you are a beginner or need to make work done efficiently
When you get the error that it can't connect to the Kex server just run these 2 commands in KALI and try again, fixed it for me. (Thank you mechDeveloper at StackOverflow) sudo mount -o remount,rw /tmp/.X11-unix sudo kex restart
Thank you so much man. I been trying to get it to work for two days following every reddit/stackoverflow/forum posts recommendation and this is what made it finally work
It says *The windows subsystem for linux optional component is not enabled. Please enable it and try again.* I checked the control panel to see if the *windows subsystem for linux* is on and it was. Why is it not working? Edit: worked. I had to restart.
When I run "kex --win -s" why does it bring a Tiger VNC viewer prompt that says "unable to connect to socket: No connection could be made because the machine actively refused it".
Hello I was doing everything step by step, but when it comes to opening kali itself by typing win-kex, here comes notification from TigerVNC Viewer that connection failed. What should i do?
maybe a small update but it could be that you cannot update kali. Check /etc/resolv. conf (with nano) and change it to your DNS server or public one. futher a nice update. As always. like your posts a lot.
Thank you so much, David, for the great tutorial. I love it. I tried exactly the way you have instructed in your tutorial on my Windows 11 Pro laptop. When I typed the kex command that you have shown it just goes back to the command prompt after an error message that says -bash: kex: command not found What am I not doing right? Thanks for your time!
Windows 11 is nice, after you replace it with Linux. It is a personal thing, but I don't like Windows more and more. But everyone should use what he like :)
I'm using Win10 and managed to start kali, but no luck on sound. Also kex --win -s doesn't start in windowed mode here. Or --sl in seamless mode. I don't get sound in any of the modes and when I click the speaker icon I get stuck in "establishing connecting to pulseaudio server...". And yes pulseaudio is allowed on public and private networks in windows firewall. :(
Finally got mines installed just getting into networking I find your videos highly educative and informative thanks a lot for the content I just wanted to ask how long it takes to get Cisco networking certificate and how helpful will it be in terms of getting job of do I need to focus on cyber security or actual programming
Great video! It's there a way to make WSL and Vmware work together in the same pc? I've read that hyper-V installed with the wsl2 goes in conflict with the virtualization of vmware
You can, I run both. Before starting your VMware VMs, you have to go to Processors under Settings and uncheck the two options under Virtualization Engine.. this is with the paid version of VMware
So, I had issues with virtualbox 6.1.28 after enabling virtual engine in the BIOS. Many others did, too. I believe it is fixed in v-box 6.1.32, but I fixed mine differently. On the Oracle help threads, there are 2 threads dedicated to the issue. At the time, I had the error code available to me and was able to search help that way (I don't remember the error code), but the fix was a 1 line command in cmd (again, I don't remember). My point is, I believe it's totally doable, and if it doesn't work, there is a lot of help on Oracles site (if you're using virtualbox, not VMware). What I'm wondering is if I need to update my WSL installation to WSL2 somehow, or if it would have done that in the background. Also, if WSL2 could have an impact on NPCAP, (for packet capturing via Wireshark or snort).
Going to come back to this video! I watched you previous video before to get ubuntu up and running. It really helped me at uni. I was going to ask you, is it better I just uninstall vmware and follow this process instead? - Also, if I do it the new way you showed, can I just create and delete these VM`s too at ease?
Hello sir! I am trying to install Kali Linux in my win1o. All is working well. But the "sudo apt update/sudo apt-get update" command is not working. I have changed "/etc/apt/sources.list". But I am not able to fix this problem. Please suggest me some solutions to fix this problem.
hello sir how to solve this error: "Error connecting to the KeX server. Please try "kex start" to start the service. If the server fails to start, please try "kex kill" or restart your WSL2 session and try again. " TigerVNC Viewer failed to connect to socket
Hi. This helped a lot. But I have a problem. There isn't exit full screen in Kali Linux, I tried everything but nothing helped. Can you please help me with this? Thank you
I installed succefully i can play youtube but no sound on my linux coming out9pulse cat connect0.,,,,, Thanks very much for your info i can understand how to interact using powershell ,ubuntu etc,,,,
my TigerVNC says that it failed to connect as my device refused connection. Also kex failed to start. "Error connecting to the KeX server. Please try "kex start" to start the service. If the server fails to start, please try "kex kill" or restart your WSL2 session and try again." What to do now?
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It's now easier than ever to install Kali Linux on Windows 11 using WSL2.
// MENU //
0:00 ▶ Introduction
1:27 ▶ WSL installation
3:42 ▶ Ubuntu installation
4:17 ▶ Install Kali Linux
5:35 ▶ Install Kali Linux GUI using Win-Kex
7:15 ▶ Start WSL2 Kali Linux GUI
// COMMANDS //
In Windows Powershell:
wsl --install
In Kali WSL:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y kali-win-kex
kex --win -s
// DOCUMENTATION //
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This is great, but will it work as intended or will it work as same as VirtualBox kali or will there be any complications running kali this way
Thanks David for sharing the video. My question is : is it possible to install other distro than kali?
I followed the whole process and successfully installed kali. But in kex network manager is not running and I'm unable to connect to any network
sir my wsl -- install thing is not working that installing text is not coming, it says "A connection with the server could not be established". What should i do?
WslRegisterDistribution failed with error: 0x80004005
Error: 0x80004005 Unspecified error
i got this
I’m trying this on my Windows 11 tomorrow when I get to work. Thanks for the never ending knowledge Sir.
David - your videos are so helpful. Greatly appreciate all that you do to support noobies getting up to speed with hands-on work.
David, without this Video, i doubt i would now have Kali Linux & Ubuntu running on my Win11 64bit Laptop, Thanks for your dedication, time, and your superb way of putting it across, for grassroots starters like myself. All made possible by Copy/Paste the Command prompts you kindly put in your Description.
Absolute Legend! Look forward to joining & supporting your Channel, Subbed & Likes all the way! 💯👌👍
YOU JUST SAVED ME FROM THE ON GOING HEADACHE OF STRUGGLING TO FIND THE GUI COMAND ON MY LAPTOP 🎉🎉🎉Thank you for this amazing video Sir! Now, I just hope my TP Link antenna will connect like it’s supposed to.
Nice Rick Roll, real smooth.
Thank you 😂
What rick roll?
Love this tutorial! Got Kali installed on my Windows 10 machine using these steps. Super easy. Thanks David!
You answered my question. I'm going to try it on my computer
@@backoffu just keep in mind that this doesn't install all the pen testing software that comes with Kali. However on the Kali website I found an "everything" command that installs all of those goodies. Took a little bit of time but worked great
@@CurrencyTrader1980 Yo brotha, its alerady been 5 months and whats your experience with kali on wsl2? Does everytin work on it? Is there any drawbacks that you found? I wanna get this clarified.
@@RealHello I've had no issues whatsoever. I would definitely recommend it
@@CurrencyTrader1980 Oh, thanks for your clarification.
I get this error every time, even though I did the following instructions:
"Error connecting to the KeX server.
Please try "kex start" to start the service.
If the server fails to start, please try "kex kill" or restart your WSL2 session and try again."
Hello David! I got Kali (with the GUI) up and running using this tutorial! I had to launch Kex just with "Kex" command to get my sound to work, but thank you for this great content!
my sound aint working how can i fix it
@@yongshengowo8325 bro my sound also don't working have you fixed That ?
@@abhishek_.v there is a pulse audio exe which you have to give it administrator perms
This is the first video i watched from your channel,it really helped! I'm subscribing.
David - your Videos Are Very Helpful And Great Without This Video I cannot Download Kali Linux like A virtual Machine and i liked And Subbed thanks for This Helpful Video
If you're facing no sound problem in Kali, open the win-kex mode like kex --win -sound
bro you saved my life i've been trying for hours to get the sound working, thank you so much, i didn't think it would have been this easy to fix 😭
@@Mattia_wa_utsu_desu Glad I could help!
I followed your video to the letter on how to install kali Linux on windows 11 but I keep getting an error, when I type in kex to run it and or says that it was "unable to connect to socket: no connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (10061)" I find your videos very educational and informative so I only ask that you don't disregard the people that you're trying to teach and inform about this kind of digital engineering.
@bighandsharry same, did you find a fix? I've tried to change DNS server but still same error
@@V1truvius I didn't, I can only seem to run it on Seamless mode. Windowed mode just won't work for me at all. Would love to know the fix. I tried so many things, creating my own VNC uninstalling and reinstalling.. just couldn't get it to work
Any fix for this yet?
i am also facing same issue , i am using latest version on Windows 11 Home and a brand new laptop , followed the instructions but not bale to get Kali Linux GUI mode
By chance does anyone know why I'm getting a TigerVNC 127.0.0:1 error when attempting to run Kali?
thank you soooo much !!!! i have followed other tutorials on how to get kali linux but they never worked, but this tutorial worked Thank you sooooooo much!!!!! omg
Excellent tutorial. I am now up and running and learning Kali!
Thank you. I am learning so much practical knowledge from your channel. Well done, sir!
The big downside I have found by doing this is you can't attach a wifi device directly to the Kali instance. So there is no monitor mode for wifi hacking. I didn't try hashcat but I suspect you can't access the GPU either. Seems more limited than a real VM to me. I ended up just bare metal install of Kali and am very happy with that.
I had the same issue it won’t pick up usb Wi-Fi
Yep
U cant bridge network cards and take snapshots. Wsl is good for devs i think.
You can attach usb devices to wsl now. I was able to attach and list mine with lsusb but i couldn't yet list it in network devices. It might be possible.
I was just going to ask about this after playing around with this VM version. I guess I'll just go ahead and duel-boot for kali.
Windows 11 had a lot of ease of use/quality of life upgrades for WSL2. I’ve enjoyed it so far as Windows is easier for a daily driver but being able to use kali for a few security/networking utilities and Ubuntu that I have built for managing a few raspberry pi projects.
Can I get ubuntu gui in wsl?
@@mahdi-hasan Should be a similar process to this video, probably even a little simpler. Though this isn't the only option either. I've followed a few videos on getting linux guis on windows, though I found that for my needs I rarely need more than a terminal so I don't use it much anymore.
can we hack with this?
@@alexismajaw9120 that’s a bit too broad of a question, but yes it is possible to use this feature for penetration testing or unconventional access. If you do wish to test offensive security features, just remember that it is not legal or ethical to access, copy or modify files when you do not have permission.
Wow, did everything you said, 10061, what up, nothing I do, reinstalled, nope, easy as that eh... your the man
Did you reinstalled it when it said it was unable to connect to socket??
How did you do it?? 10061 keeps popping up
1:21 gotta appreciate goldfish wearing shark fin painting, thanks for the reminder david👍🏻
Great video sir !!!
1. But will it come with all the functions that Kali has inbuilt in it
2. Which is better having a virtual machine with Kali installed in it or using this way of install it with WSL
Have you got the answer?
You Helped Me A Lot I was Facing A Lot Of Problems while doing this at my own, but you helped me a lot
This is easy to understand and now the frustration is gone ty so much better than Virtual box!!!!
Darnit David!!!! I watch your channel; all the time but you finally hooked me with this!
i have one problem.... actually i was following all your guidance in this video but due to one mistake i have ruined everything ....while installing ubuntu suddenly it had stopped at 25% so, by mistake i had closed the powershell and when i had tried to open it asked for restart and i did but when i open powershell again i find nothing had downloaded and even wsl --install command is not working , instead some guidance mannual and flag gets opened and even though i had diownload and installed ubuntu using wsl --install -d ubuntu and it had worked but when i downloaded kali linux from ms app and used uname -a then it had shown command not found ....how can i fix all....i hope it have presented my problem in clear way....please guide me...
This channel is pure gold. Thank you!
Sir,
there is any way to use macOS Monterey like this in windows 11,
i try that in vmware but when i try to implement the newest vertion of vmware tools to that it become success, but after that macOs is working with lag problem.
there is any solution for that.
hope you will help me!
thanks.
this is amazing. im a wrinkly old IT guy. putting kali INTO windows as an app is INSANE. as of today i cant get this to work - i click on "GET" and it wont work. (but ubuntu is fine).
Bro knew what he was doing when he did that rick roll.
thank u but the start gui wont start everything els went exactly as urs but when try to run it wont work!! it shows error cant connect kex server failed to connect to port 127.0.1:1": unable to connect to socket: no connection could not be made because the target machine actively refused it (10061)
I am new to kali but it is easy as i go through your video thanq so much sir
Your TH-cam King mannnnnn ,🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Thank you very much!
*You're
Thank You for the knowledge passing out here.
Is it not tracable back to the HOST --> I mean, is it not tracable back to the Windows PC
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Very nice. Much easier than the remote desktop method you posted before.
Did any of you run to this error, and has solution for it:
Error connecting to the KeX server.
Please try "kex start" to start the service.
If the server fails to start, please try "kex kill" or restart your WSL2 session and try again.
P.S
Great video I love your stuff
Have you updated WSL via the command line? If not, open CMD with admin privileges & type:
wsl -update
It’s 2 dashes for people on looking at this comment on iOS…
@@josemembreno4996 thanks for your reply, but i solved my problem with windows update, my windows build version didn't support wsl.
That is one of the coolest vids I have watched in a *LONG* time. Thank you
That’s really great method to install kali, easy and practical. Totally better than having it on vms. One question, does it support the built-in network adapter out of the box? Or should we also use an external adapter.
What your sorry ass doesn't realise is that this is an experiment, nothing more. It doesn't have hardware access. You can't assign external WiFi cards to it. These are just useless gimmicks. The best and the recommended method will always be to use Kali in a VM or bare metal. Not like this.
Same question, as iwconfig, ifconfig or lspci do no detect wlan0
sir problem How can I fix :( wsl : The term 'wsl' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the s
pelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ wsl --install
+ ~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (wsl:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
Thank you so muchhh I watched a bunch of videos and nun of them worked on windows home🤦🏽♂️
I have installed the GUI of kali linux and it was great.
I am getting some problem while uninstalling this
can anyone help me to uninstall this or suggest any video on how to uninstall
Thank you so much, David!! I've been having some issues running Kali-Linux in my VirtrualBox & instead i just rather went to use the kex --win -s command which has Kalki-Linux up and running in now time! Thank you sir!! "Never gonna give you up never gonna let you down!!" Q U A L I T Y !!!
It ran great up to the point I typed kali --win -s and I got a pop up saying " tigervnc viewer unable to connect to socket no connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it (10061)" and it gave me a weird IP address and I cant seem to figure this issue out so I went back to running a vm the old fashioned way :( I tried it on both of my laptops and my desktop and my desktop is a threadripper 3990wx with a 3080ti and 64gb of ram so it's not the pc haha its something about the connection it tried to make.. I found on my older laptop I had to go into wsl 1 instead of wsl 2. To even get it to work but same outcome on all three machines regardless of wsl mode 1 or 2
Thank you so much David! Now I can use Kali Linux without dual booting it!
It's not working.
WSL is not installing instead of that it showing as "The connection with the server was terminated abnormally".
Could u please help me regarding this ?
Very glad to have found this video tutorial.. Very interesting and informative video, David. I currently run Kali on virtual box. Which install do you think is more beneficial for a new cybersecurity student?
The only guy that tells you the real truth respect DAVID
THANK YOU SO MUCH i was trying to do this and i kept having errors youre so helpfull
what I found interesting the most is that David successfully rick roller 270k people, big up king
lol... got to have some fun! :)
Thanks David. This is one of the best videos to get started with Linux os i really appreciate for the work
bro the fact that David just rickrolled us by teaching us
tq sir i just now saw you vid and install the app tq for your gud work keep it up love from india
Hello David,
upon ruining the kex --win -s command im getting the below prompt error message from Tiger VNC Viewer
How to fix no connection could be made because target machine actively refused it (10061), do you know how to fix that?
Thank you,
thanks a lot! this solves a lot bringing a USB with kali preloaded, partitioning disks.
Excuse me, whenever I type wsl --install
It doesn't install anything like you showed,
Please Help if possible Anybody?
Holy crap I knew I could do this but wasn't sure how to. thanks love your videos
When I install the Win-Kex this happens:
E: Unable to locate package kali-win-kex
Does anyone know how to solve this issue?
watching from a Kali vm in windows, beautiful
What i found that was interesting about wsl2 is that with vcxsrv you can directly run linux apps and any gui straight within windows. Say you wanted to use Dolphin your default file explorer. You can, because your drives are in /mnt/. It takes some tweaking for those apps to actually run though (Ex. using a shell script to run exe files). But you could totally run i3wm or something else as your shell program. It would need a lot of tweaking to, say, show opened apps, but it would probably work fine. There needs to be a project set up to have a Parallels-like experience with linux on windows. That would be cool.
Works for me..
Thanks! Its very informative and i love the way you say "GUI"
Great video, never delete it.
It was so excellent.
Hi David , Ive tried installing using this method , my WinKex server wont start. Ive checked to make sure there isn't any firewalls , I'm getting an error. do you know what the problem may be ?
Sir. I entered wrong re-enter password 5:20 in kali linux and i uninstalled it and i closed that window ,again i opened .But kali linux from microsoft store its not installing....😕
Hello David can you. Help me when I enter the sound code it doesn't work it says command not found please let me know anything
I've been rickrolled many times in the past, never thought I'd ever see David rickroll me.
lol... glad I managed to get you 😂
When I attempt to install it, I get an error saying: WslRegisterDistribution failed with error: 0x80004005
Error: 0x80004005 Unspecified error
Can you help?
Great video 😃. You rickrolled us 😂.
Works great - would love to see how to set up Ubuntu desktop in a similar way.
Please help me, I had installed Kali Linux as you had instructed in the video and now i need to install wifi driver which is compat-wireless driver but while installing that driver in Kali it shows an error :-
/sbin/modprobe: invalid option -- 'l'
/sbin/modprobe: invalid option -- 'l'
Stoping bluetooth service..
Stoping bluetooth : /usr/sbin/bluetooth.
bluetooth is not running ... Failed
Help me please
USB Support:
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/connect-usb
GPU Support:
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gpu-compute
WSL2 uses a different IP than from Windows Host:
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/faq
not works for me , showing "error connecting to the kex server" i'am disapointed :(
Thank you David for this info!
But what is the benefit of use WSL instead of VM?
I've been trying to wrap my head around that same question. The benefit of WSL over VM . 🤔
being a compatibility layer, wsl is mutch lighter than a VM being so able to run at native performance. as far as the choice goes i'm not confortable daily driving kali as wsl instance because being nat-ed, wsl is not exposet to the net and trafic is routed through windows which makes port forwarding the only painful option. so until bridged networking is added you cannot reach back kali (see basic reverse shell as an example) without the painful and "error" prone port forwarding and is not really straight forward if you are a beginner or need to make work done efficiently
Het jou gesien op Noobs podcast saam network chuck .. will have a look at you videos . Cool to see South African at almost 1M subs . Keep up good work
Baie Dankie Ryno!
When you get the error that it can't connect to the Kex server just run these 2 commands in KALI and try again, fixed it for me. (Thank you mechDeveloper at StackOverflow)
sudo mount -o remount,rw /tmp/.X11-unix
sudo kex restart
Thank you so much man. I been trying to get it to work for two days following every reddit/stackoverflow/forum posts recommendation and this is what made it finally work
Thanks Torren! it worked!!
Thank u from Czech Republic,finally after 2hours of researching it works.
It says *The windows subsystem for linux optional component is not enabled. Please enable it and try again.*
I checked the control panel to see if the *windows subsystem for linux* is on and it was. Why is it not working?
Edit: worked. I had to restart.
I tried to install and my computer shut down half way through and now it won't work!!! Please Help!
When I run "kex --win -s" why does it bring a Tiger VNC viewer prompt that says "unable to connect to socket: No connection could be made because the machine actively refused it".
Hello
I was doing everything step by step, but when it comes to opening kali itself by typing win-kex, here comes notification from TigerVNC Viewer that connection failed. What should i do?
Thank you David Bombal, from senegal🇸🇳
Thank you! And welcome Senegal!
maybe a small update but it could be that you cannot update kali.
Check /etc/resolv. conf (with nano) and change it to your DNS server or public one.
futher a nice update. As always. like your posts a lot.
GUI is what I needed.....yesssss!!
Hope you find the video helpful 😀
Thank you so much, David, for the great tutorial. I love it. I tried exactly the way you have instructed in your tutorial on my Windows 11 Pro laptop. When I typed the kex command that you have shown it just goes back to the command prompt after an error message that says -bash: kex: command not found What am I not doing right? Thanks for your time!
Do you fix it?
who do youn want to hack sir?
worked flawlessly on windows 10 too! if you meet prereq ofc
Windows 11 is nice, after you replace it with Linux. It is a personal thing, but I don't like Windows more and more. But everyone should use what he like :)
I'm using Win10 and managed to start kali, but no luck on sound.
Also kex --win -s doesn't start in windowed mode here. Or --sl in seamless mode. I don't get sound in any of the modes and when I click the speaker icon I get stuck in "establishing connecting to pulseaudio server...". And yes pulseaudio is allowed on public and private networks in windows firewall. :(
Thank you very much sir! i have now Kali and with sound now!!!
Finally got mines installed just getting into networking I find your videos highly educative and informative thanks a lot for the content I just wanted to ask how long it takes to get Cisco networking certificate and how helpful will it be in terms of getting job of do I need to focus on cyber security or actual programming
Great video! It's there a way to make WSL and Vmware work together in the same pc? I've read that hyper-V installed with the wsl2 goes in conflict with the virtualization of vmware
Can't do both with WSL2 installed, hyper-v enabled.
You can, I run both. Before starting your VMware VMs, you have to go to Processors under Settings and uncheck the two options under Virtualization Engine.. this is with the paid version of VMware
So, I had issues with virtualbox 6.1.28 after enabling virtual engine in the BIOS. Many others did, too. I believe it is fixed in v-box 6.1.32, but I fixed mine differently. On the Oracle help threads, there are 2 threads dedicated to the issue. At the time, I had the error code available to me and was able to search help that way (I don't remember the error code), but the fix was a 1 line command in cmd (again, I don't remember). My point is, I believe it's totally doable, and if it doesn't work, there is a lot of help on Oracles site (if you're using virtualbox, not VMware).
What I'm wondering is if I need to update my WSL installation to WSL2 somehow, or if it would have done that in the background. Also, if WSL2 could have an impact on NPCAP, (for packet capturing via Wireshark or snort).
@@Fr4zn2pirit I tried unchecking those boxes, but didn't work with freeware version. Thanks!
Hi David, just subscribed...
Is Kali WSL secure to use?
Are any features limited on it?
If it isn't as secure as a VM, can I make it secure?
Going to come back to this video! I watched you previous video before to get ubuntu up and running. It really helped me at uni. I was going to ask you, is it better I just uninstall vmware and follow this process instead? - Also, if I do it the new way you showed, can I just create and delete these VM`s too at ease?
Hello sir! I am trying to install Kali Linux in my win1o. All is working well. But the "sudo apt update/sudo apt-get update" command is not working. I have changed "/etc/apt/sources.list". But I am not able to fix this problem. Please suggest me some solutions to fix this problem.
How do you mount, connect and manager USBs on Kali Linux using this? I’m trying to connect my HackRF and I can’t figure out how to manage the mounts
hello sir
how to solve this error:
"Error connecting to the KeX server.
Please try "kex start" to start the service.
If the server fails to start, please try "kex kill" or restart your WSL2 session and try again.
"
TigerVNC Viewer failed to connect to socket
Hi. This helped a lot. But I have a problem. There isn't exit full screen in Kali Linux, I tried everything but nothing helped. Can you please help me with this? Thank you
thank you so much for help i have trying from 6 days and finally i got
I installed succefully i can play youtube but no sound on my linux coming out9pulse cat connect0.,,,,,
Thanks very much for your info i can understand how to interact using powershell ,ubuntu etc,,,,
my TigerVNC says that it failed to connect as my device refused connection. Also kex failed to start.
"Error connecting to the KeX server.
Please try "kex start" to start the service.
If the server fails to start, please try "kex kill" or restart your WSL2 session and try again."
What to do now?
Thank you so much. This was so simple and so useful. i appreciate it for sure
How much net (WIFI DATA) it take to install it completely? Plz tell in (GB)