Cybersecurity professionals and researchers can now launch Kali Linux in a virtualized container on macOS Sequoia using Apple's new containerization framework.

Kali Linux now runs natively on macOS, thanks to Apple’s new containerization framework introduced at WWDC 2025. This is part ...

The new feature, dubbed Kali Unkaputtbar, is available to users running Kali Linux version 2022.1 or newer on bare-metal, with btrfs as the file system.

But Kali also officially supports KDE, Xfce, MATE, Lxde, e17, and i3wm. The GNOME system means the main Kali system will now take up a bit more RAM—768MB minimum for a full GNOME 3 session.

Kali Linux is a widely respected Linux distribution geared toward testing and auditing systems and networks, and the latest release has added more hacking tools, updates, and even a UI refresh ...

At this point, you should have Kali Linux running on WSL 2, to get Win-KeX up and running, you’ll need to run sudo apt update && sudo apt install kali-win-kex within your Kali Linux installation.