# Kibana on Linux Subsystem on Windows 10

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-on-linux-subsystem-on-windows-10/106989>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 9, 2017, 8:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-on-linux-subsystem-on-windows-10/106989 "2017-11-09T08:34:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Eric\_Yeh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47c2d/32.png) [@Eric\_Yeh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eric_Yeh)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 8:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-on-linux-subsystem-on-windows-10/106989/1 "2017-11-09T08:34:01Z")

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Hi,  
I have Kibana installed on LSW but I couldn't get it to start. There is no [error] on Kibana.stderr but this is printed everytime I start Kibana:

`chroot: cannot change root directory to /: Function not implemented`

How come about to solve this problem?

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**Author:** ![cjcenizal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cjcenizal/32/11216_2.png) [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-on-linux-subsystem-on-windows-10/106989/2 "2017-11-09T21:56:30Z")

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Hi Eric, I spoke with another Kibana engineer and he informed me that when Kibana starts up it uses `chroot` in its init script. Is it possible that Windows doesn't have `chroot` implemented? If so, then you could try not using the deb package and use the tar.gz instead. As an alternative, if Windows has `systemctl` implemented, you could try running Kibana with the command `systemctl start kibana.service`. Does this help?

Thanks,  
CJ

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**Author:** ![Eric\_Yeh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47c2d/32.png) [@Eric\_Yeh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eric_Yeh)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 3:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-on-linux-subsystem-on-windows-10/106989/3 "2017-11-10T03:20:08Z")

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Hi,  
Thank you. I am able to start Kibana with tar.gz installation.

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**Author:** ![cjcenizal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cjcenizal/32/11216_2.png) [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 4:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-on-linux-subsystem-on-windows-10/106989/4 "2017-11-10T04:02:03Z")

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That's fantastic! I'm glad we could help.

CJ

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 4:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-on-linux-subsystem-on-windows-10/106989/5 "2017-12-08T04:02:25Z")

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