Kali running in WSL issues with Kex and ssh

[th3fr0x3n]

I am trying to get a handle on some issues that I have been having with Kali running in WSL. For the sake of being clear I went througha fresh install of kali and the problems persisted.

To replicate i followed all the steps provided in https://www.kali.org/docs/wsl/win-kex/

When running kex it fails in window mode:

kex win.jpg

ESM and SL mode work

But on top of that SSH fails to work for IPv4:

On a prior build i enabled systemd and was able to see this error:

ssh.jpg

I modified the sshd_config line "addressfamily inet" to force ssh over IPv4 but that resulted in the service completly failing.

generally speaking I am wondering if anyone else is running Kali in WSL and have you seen these problems and have a possible solution.

[Mik3]

Whether you are new or not, it is preferable to run the most recent Kali on a virtual machine.

[th3fr0x3n]

Running Kali as a VM might be preferable to some, but running a WSL instance best fits my uses.