- In this video, I'm going to
show you a number of things. I'm going to show you how
to get Kali Linux downloaded and installed and running
within WSL version two, running within Windows 10. I'm going to show you how to
download applications such as Nmap so that you can check
for open ports on devices, but in addition, I'm going to show you how to get the graphical
user interface installed and running on Kali so that
you can manage the Kali Linux device running within WSL
version two using remote desktop. So rather than just getting
a CLI, which is the default that you'll get when you
install Kali on WSL version two, I'll show you how to get
a graphical user interface installed and running. Okay, let's get started. (energetic synth music) Now in this video, I am doing everything on this Windows 10 laptop, I'm controlling the Windows 10 laptop
using VNC from my Mac, but I'm actually doing everything
on this Windows 10 laptop. On the Kelly or Kali Linux
website, they discuss using WSL version two
with Kali and they say that Kali Linux has had support for WSL version one for some time,
but it was somewhat limited, especially with regards to networking. WSL version one had problems with speed, specifically input/output,
which were problematic. The reason why is that in WSL version one, they were using a translation
layer between Linux and Windows 10, so there was
sort of this translation layer, translating system calls
between Linux and Windows 10. Now however, they're using
virtualization technologies. So it's a lot better in WSL version two, versus WSL version one. However, they are still
investigating how useful it is, but what I'm gonna show you now is how to get this up and running. It's very simple to get
Kali Linux up and running on a Windows 10 computer. Okay so on my Windows
10 laptop, I'm gonna go to the Microsoft store,
I'm gonna search for Kali and notice this entry,
Kali by Offensive Security. I'm gonna click on that
and I'm gonna click get, and I'm gonna click install. Kali is downloading, it's
about 185 meg in size. I'm gonna click launch to
start the installation. We can see that it's now being installed. We're asked to create a
default Linux user account. This doesn't have to be the
same as my Windows username. So I'm going to simply call this Kali and set the password as Kali. So in other words, this is similar to the default username
and password that you get if you download the prebuilt
virtual machine from Kali. Okay, so there you go, it's installed. So lsb_release -a. We're told that that
command doesn't exist. Let's go, uname -a. We can see that we're using
Linux on my ASUS laptop. Could also try cat /etc/os-release and as you can see, their pretty
name is Kali Linux Rolling. I can see that the version is 2020.2. Okay, I'll clear the screen. Can I ping a device in
my physical network? This is a Cisco router. I need to use sudo to run that command. So I'll put my password in
and notice I can ping a Cisco device from within this
virtual machine running within WSL version two, I'll start PowerShell and notice wsl -l -v shows me that I've got Kali
Linux running and I've also got Ubuntu virtual machines running. So in other words, this
Kali Linux virtual machine is running within WSL on
my Windows 10 computer. Okay let's do a sudo apt
update to update references. So Kali is now connecting to
the internet and making sure that the references are updated,
I could upgrade software, but I'm simply gonna use the command sudo apt install Nmap to install Nmap on this Kali Linux host. So now I have Nmap installed
and I could use that to check devices on my network. Okay so let's use Nmap to check the ports on my Cisco router. This is a physical Cisco
router in my network. So let's paste that in
and check which ports are opened on that router. We can see that Nmap is running. Okay so it's run a check
against that router. We can see a whole bunch
of ports are opened, including chargen, now you
typically wouldn't enable that on a Cisco router. I enabled chargen and other
ports on the Cisco router for this demonstration. So as an example, on my Cisco router, I enabled the TCP small servers. You don't typically enable that. So you wouldn't typically do that. So what I'll do on my Windows computers, open up a CMD prompt. So this is traditional CMD. I'll make this Kali Linux window bigger. So on my Windows computer, if I Telnet to the router
on port 19, notice, we get a whole bunch of characters. So that's character
generation on a Cisco router. That's again, something that
you don't typically enable. It's not a good idea, so I'll close that. So you can see chargen is open. We can see SSH is open
using Cisco SSH 1.25. We can see that Telnet is
enabled, not a great idea for security reasons, so once again, I could Telnet to that
router and I'd be able to log in to the router. It's not a good idea to use Telnet 'cause it's all in cleartext,
but as you can see, a whole bunch of services
are opened on that router and Nmap has been able
to discover that for me. So I'm once again, using
Nmap within Kali Linux on my Windows 10 laptop. Now this only currently has a CLI. You may want to run a GUI. In other words, get a GUI
version of Kali running. So let's do that. Okay so to do that, I'm simply
gonna install some software. So install Xfce, and
then I'll install Xrdp. So we can see that the first
installation is taking place. Now I'll speed up the installation
'cause it takes a while. Okay so I want to use US English and the software is now installed. Okay so now that that's
installed I'll install Xrdp. Say yes to install the
software, same thing happens. Software is downloaded and installed and what I'll do is
start the Xrdp service. So that's now started and
what I should be able to do is start remote desktop, so
start remote desktop connection. What IP address am I going to connect to? So IP address on the
Kali Linux host shows me that the IP address is this. So 172.18.108.119. I'm told that the identity
of the remote device cannot be verified, I'm okay with that. I'm gonna say yes to connect and notice I'm presented with an RDP session. So I can now log in as Kali, Kali. The username and password
that I configured. I'll click okay and notice,
I now have Kali Linux running within an RDP session
on my Windows 10 computer. So I'm connecting to my Kali Linux host. There's the IP address
once again, 172.18.108.119 or to use the more modern
command IP address. There's my IP address of
my Kali Linux hosts running within RDP on Windows 10. So I'll close my remote session. So once again, I've got Kali Linux running within WSL version two,
here's the CLI version. I'll use ifconfig old command
there's the IP address and what I can do is once again, use remote desktop to
connect to that device and once again, manage it through the GUI. So by using these
commands, I can now connect to the Kali Linux host
using remote desktop and manage it through the GUI. Okay so in this video, I showed
you how to get Kali Linux up and running within WSL version two. I showed you how to install
applications such as Nmap and I've also shown you how
to install a GUI on Kali so that you can manage the
Kali Linux host running within WSL version two,
using remote desktop. Now, if you enjoyed this video, please consider subscribing
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to wish you all the very best. (energetic synth music)
