Kali Linux Windows 11 App with GUI and sound // Updated simple steps for 2022

[@davidbombal]

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 // Download link:www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/kali-linux/9pkr34tncv07 Kali WSL Documentation: www.kali.org/docs/wsl/ // SOCIAL // Discord: discord.com/invite/usKSyzb Twitter: twitter.com/davidbombal Instagram: instagram.com/davidbombal LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/davidbombal Facebook: facebook.com/davidbombal.co TikTok: tiktok.com/@davidbombal KZbin: kzbin.info // MY STUFF // Monitor: amzn.to/3yyF74Y More stuff: www.amazon.com/shop/davidbombal // SPONSORS // Interested in sponsoring my videos? Reach out to my team here: [e-mail] Disclaimer: This video is for educational purposes only. I own all equipment used for this demonstration. No actual attack took place on any websites. Only use the tools demonstrated in this video on networks you have permission to attack. Please note that links listed may be affiliate links and provide me with a small percentage/kickback should you use them to purchase any of the items listed or recommended. Thank you for supporting me and this channel!

[@muhammadariffin3392]

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

[@kenkkash]

Thanks David for sharing the video. My question is : is it possible to install other distro than kali?

[@prizzen9200]

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

[@mmm2233]

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?

[@Top5WithRhyme]

WslRegisterDistribution failed with error: 0x80004005 Error: 0x80004005 Unspecified error i got this

[@lesliebaku]

David - your videos are so helpful. Greatly appreciate all that you do to support noobies getting up to speed with hands-on work.

[@DearGod-e2f]

I’m trying this on my Windows 11 tomorrow when I get to work. Thanks for the never ending knowledge Sir.

[@blackonblack...9244]

Nice Rick Roll, real smooth.

[@davidbombal]

Thank you 😂

[@bennyxds]

What rick roll?

[@mercian-man7116]

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! 💯👌👍

[@happytsubaki5629]

This is the first video i watched from your channel,it really helped! I'm subscribing.

[@CurrencyTrader1980]

Love this tutorial! Got Kali installed on my Windows 10 machine using these steps. Super easy. Thanks David!

[@backoffu]

You answered my question. I'm going to try it on my computer

[@CurrencyTrader1980]

@@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

[@RealHello]

@@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.

[@CurrencyTrader1980]

@@RealHello I've had no issues whatsoever. I would definitely recommend it

[@RealHello]

@@CurrencyTrader1980 Oh, thanks for your clarification.

[@percyhenderson5543]

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.

[@oliver2516]

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."

[@NULL_MATRIX]

Your KZbin King mannnnnn ,🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@davidbombal]

Thank you very much!

[@shockwavevideos5689]

*You're

[@habibolaniyan4206]

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

[@theretrotv3947]

Have you got the answer?

[@david5553]

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!

[@yongshengowo8325]

my sound aint working how can i fix it

[@abhishek_.v]

​@@yongshengowo8325 bro my sound also don't working have you fixed That ?

[@yongshengowo8325]

@@abhishek_.v there is a pulse audio exe which you have to give it administrator perms

[@Scattaman-Priest]

Excellent tutorial. I am now up and running and learning Kali!

[@mw33nt3rtainer]

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]

@bighandsharry same, did you find a fix? I've tried to change DNS server but still same error

[@Hnunya]

@@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

[@naytbreeze]

Any fix for this yet?

[@user-kr9nc1ml6w]

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

[@ricigri1242]

This channel is pure gold. Thank you!

[@Native_love]

Darnit David!!!! I watch your channel; all the time but you finally hooked me with this!

[@itarqos5]

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

[@DeoVinDixie]

Thank you. I am learning so much practical knowledge from your channel. Well done, sir!

[@navaneethakrishnan.s9287]

If you're facing no sound problem in Kali, open the win-kex mode like kex --win -sound

[@Mattia_wa_utsu_desu]

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 😭

[@navaneethakrishnan.s9287]

@@Mattia_wa_utsu_desu Glad I could help!

[@Somerandomnessvvv]

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.

[@subasaeagle8189]

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.

[@yairkaz]

Same question, as iwconfig, ifconfig or lspci do no detect wlan0

[@crocodiledondii]

That is one of the coolest vids I have watched in a *LONG* time. Thank you

[@rationalbushcraft]

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.

[@giannirusso2604]

I had the same issue it won’t pick up usb Wi-Fi

[@pratikmohite6202]

Yep

[@rottenfist220]

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.

[@TheRobDez]

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.

[@HypeRatt]

Bro knew what he was doing when he did that rick roll.

[@JJKK408]

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]

Can I get ubuntu gui in wsl?

[@JJKK408]

@@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]

can we hack with this?

[@JJKK408]

@@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.

[@devviz]

1:21 gotta appreciate goldfish wearing shark fin painting, thanks for the reminder david👍🏻

[@NetworkNate]

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

[@cricsyncer888]

You Helped Me A Lot I was Facing A Lot Of Problems while doing this at my own, but you helped me a lot

[@adaycj]

Very nice. Much easier than the remote desktop method you posted before.

[@chaoticspaz]

Wow, did everything you said, 10061, what up, nothing I do, reinstalled, nope, easy as that eh... your the man

[@jannamarie7458]

Did you reinstalled it when it said it was unable to connect to socket??

[@jannamarie7458]

How did you do it?? 10061 keeps popping up

[@DevMode951]

Holy crap I knew I could do this but wasn't sure how to. thanks love your videos

[@ogr2]

Great video 😃. You rickrolled us 😂.

[@christophermartin2842]

This is easy to understand and now the frustration is gone ty so much better than Virtual box!!!!

[@mikeblades5970]

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?

[@_lanx_4831]

Thanks! Its very informative and i love the way you say "GUI"

[@layagodfrey2768]

Thanks David. This is one of the best videos to get started with Linux os i really appreciate for the work

[@namnorimai]

thanks a lot! this solves a lot bringing a USB with kali preloaded, partitioning disks.

[@louis417asdo]

Thank you David for this info! But what is the benefit of use WSL instead of VM?

[@scottspa74]

I've been trying to wrap my head around that same question. The benefit of WSL over VM . 🤔

[@TheArchimede]

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

[@StroInTheShell]

By chance does anyone know why I'm getting a TigerVNC 127.0.0:1 error when attempting to run Kali?

[@sweetrascalut]

I am new to kali but it is easy as i go through your video thanq so much sir

[@kvelez]

Great video, never delete it. It was so excellent.

[@cesargadea165]

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?

[@abusid9514]

tq sir i just now saw you vid and install the app tq for your gud work keep it up love from india

[@rrrrroatatingowl3332]

This deserves more views the king of YT love from India 😊😊😊

[@yaboiJCMdagoat]

Thank you so muchhh I watched a bunch of videos and nun of them worked on windows home🤦🏽‍♂️

[@zcom2797]

THANK YOU SO MUCH i was trying to do this and i kept having errors youre so helpfull

[@satamique]

Thank you very much sir! i have now Kali and with sound now!!!

[@seanvincilao7353]

Thank you so much David! Now I can use Kali Linux without dual booting it!

[@jeffl8915]

Thank you for making this David!

[@xhack5513]

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...

[@hrithikraj4437]

GUI is what I needed.....yesssss!!

[@davidbombal]

Hope you find the video helpful 😀

[@Nikolas100o10oao]

Thank you so much. This was so simple and so useful. i appreciate it for sure

[@bennyboiii1196]

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.

[@bubblegumstudios1179]

Works for me..

[@pIacebo]

watching from a Kali vm in windows, beautiful

[@bahabardi8227]

what I found interesting the most is that David successfully rick roller 270k people, big up king

[@davidbombal]

lol... got to have some fun! :)

[@anorak1263]

I've been rickrolled many times in the past, never thought I'd ever see David rickroll me.

[@davidbombal]

lol... glad I managed to get you 😂

[@joyak2912]

bro the fact that David just rickrolled us by teaching us

[@snowman1185-v]

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 !!!

[@StefenTower]

Works great - would love to see how to set up Ubuntu desktop in a similar way.

[@lootgoblin989]

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?

[@rajawaleed1658]

thank you so much for help i have trying from 6 days and finally i got

[@btc76]

excellent video David !! big thanks..

[@ConnectDaPlug]

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

[@shurajit]

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!

[@user-pb4oh5qs1t]

Do you fix it?

[@goblin.x.x]

who do youn want to hack sir?

[@nigel3270]

Awesome video mate!

[@satielo666]

Hello, great video, just one question... have you ever used metasploit in this kali over wsl? I was trying to use it some weeks ago and i could initialize the database so i could not do nothing and i went back to my kali partition jeje 😅

[@durodolaoluwafemi8057]

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

[@hansah87]

Love the video! But I have been wondering, is wsl as «safe» as a traditional virtual maskin? What is the ups and downs compared to a traditional virtual maskin?

[@gambit3570]

awesome video david can you attach an external wifi adapter to this for wifi hacking ?

[@rynolloyd]

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

[@davidbombal]

Baie Dankie Ryno!

[@RobertOpoku-pj9fy]

Thank you very much. It worked 🎉

[@chileanexperiment]

subscribed. this was great. thank you

[@dastardlyman]

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).

[@ronh5613]

Thanks for another great video. I do have one question is it possible to run other Android apps in this configuration?

[@sokolbechar]

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

[@josemembreno4996]

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…

[@sokolbechar]

@@josemembreno4996 thanks for your reply, but i solved my problem with windows update, my windows build version didn't support wsl.

[@Soma_109]

Thank you much appreciated got a new subscriber.

[@Irbis2888]

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

[@FuckDatNiggaMichael]

Can't do both with WSL2 installed, hyper-v enabled.

[@Fr4zn2pirit]

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

[@scottspa74]

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).

[@FuckDatNiggaMichael]

@@Fr4zn2pirit I tried unchecking those boxes, but didn't work with freeware version. Thanks!

[@rayraysss]

Wasn't expecting to get rick-rolled in here

[@moondoggspicoli1583]

Great video! I'm curious if WSL is using MS Hyper-V or Linux KVM for these Linux distros as VM's, or is it more like containers like Docker?

[@Muhammed-nani964]

So we can do that for u Ubuntu too ? Noice video , so do you prefer this over wmare and vbox?

[@mamecheikhcisse4254]

Thank you David Bombal, from senegal🇸🇳

[@davidbombal]

Thank you! And welcome Senegal!

[@secretmystery8305]

thanks for upload this video... it's help lots of people...

[@davidbombal]

You're welcome!

[@_Garm_]

haha love the picture behind you ! :D

[@ibrahimabdeltawab6418]

Great 👍! Thanks so much David ❤️

[@arifzaidaiju]

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.

[@stefanjohansson2373]

Thanks for your video. Is this a Kali with all the tools or a stripped down version? Isn’t there a command to install WSL and Kali in even a simpler way?

[@makal4966]

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.

[@code-grammardude5974]

worked flawlessly on windows 10 too! if you meet prereq ofc

[@TNothingFree]

Professional grade videos, thank you!

[@scottspa74]

Worked great, thank you, David? Is there a similar way as kex to get a GUI for Ubuntu?

[@MrSwan67]

This worked with no mistakes

[@txxx9650]

Thanks a lot David😃

[@coolmans1134]

TYSM UR THE BEST MAN!!

[@ottone1413]

Hi Nice video ! Is better have the kali on a VM or with WSL??

[@asimzahoor001]

just tell me David how many time are you gonna "RICK ROLL" us 😂 Great content btw

[@hamidabatemam5744]

Nice job Mr David bombal

[@anshumishra9368]

Woooooow ❤❤❤❤❤ only this reason can lead me to update my windows to version 11

[@davidbombal]

This is supported in Windows 10. Prerequisites: You must be running Windows 10 version 2004 and higher (Build 19041 and higher) or Windows 11.

[@WilderRAnger]

david is the best hacker teacher

[@josemembreno4996]

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

[@vittorisantiago]

Hi David! Great video! If I install some tool on Kali GUI, is it saved if I turn off the machine and turn it on again?

[@WayneM1961]

Hi Mr. Bombal, I am a student on one your courses (Wireshark: Packet Analysis and Ethical Hacking: Core Skills) I currently have Kali installed on Virtual box. Just to clarify, does the installation you installed seperate Kali from your main windows 11 computer?

[@Siobhanjohnson523]

I don't think it does.