Running Kali Linux Distro On your Windows OS using WSL2

Muhammad Luqman
5 min readAug 10, 2020

A quick guide to setup a Linux Distribution (Kali Linux ) on Windows 10 OS

Running Linux Distribution on Windows without using a Hypervisor ?? Yes, you heard it right, Windows got a new feature known as WSL (Windows Subsystem For Linux) which allows you to run Linux distribution alongside your windows Desktop.

We are going to use WSL2 to achieve our goal here. Why are we using WSL2 well WLS 2 uses the virtualization technology. Some of the features can be compared as seen below

Comparison of WSL1 and WSL2

Enough of the talk now, let’s dive into setting up our Kali Linux Distribution on our windows 10 machine. There are some prerequisites to qualify for the smooth running and installation of WSL2. Type winver in your start menu to know your Windows version and build. It must match the version as seen below

Windows version 2004

If you don’t have the above version update your windows.

Getting Started

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Muhammad Luqman

Information Security Enthusiast | MS InfoSec | CEH | Cybersecurity Writer