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Kali WSL

Quick Method​

Our recommended method to get Kali running on WSL 2:

  1. Open a administrator command prompt and run:
dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestart
dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all
  1. Restart when prompt
  2. Download and install the WSL 2 Linux Kernel from here:
  3. Restart
  4. Open a command prompt and run:
wsl --set-default-version 2