Microsoft Is Backporting WSL2 To Their Windows 10 2019 Releases

[zexelon]

Awesome, now I'm only 18 months behind the earliest release that supports WSL2.

If your 18+ months behind on Windows 10 updates, I would strongly recommend updating... Windows 10 is not like Linux where you can typically avoid updates for a long time and nothing breaks... Windows 10 started broken and the updates do actually substantially help it.

That being said I have found lately that Windows 10 is becoming harder and harder to justify running!

[edwaleni]

Latest versions of Virtualbox and VMware support using the Hyper-V API so they can provide virtualization on top of the Hyper-V engine.

• VMware Workstation 15.5 Now Supports Host Hyper-V Mode
• Use Virtualbox and Hyper-V at the same time

Excellent info. i will check this out.

[spiritofreason]

The default NAT setup with WSL2 / Hyper-V doesn't work with IPv6. It made for a funky situation when Ubuntu's archive would only resolve to IPv6 addresses for some reason, and the repos would not be reachable. So there might need to be some tinkering, depending on your use case.

However, I think I'd prefer Linux on the outside and Windows in the VM, with performance-critical devices passed through. Consumer Intel devices aren't set up for it well, though, since PCIe ACS isn't supported on root ports for at least Skylake and derivatives (but maybe it is for Ice Lake and later? The data sheet has registers that suggest capabilities).

[mozo]

Windows 10 started broken and the updates do actually substantially help it.

Good joke

[randomizer]

If your 18+ months behind on Windows 10 updates, I would strongly recommend updating... Windows 10 is not like Linux where you can typically avoid updates for a long time and nothing breaks... Windows 10 started broken and the updates do actually substantially help it.

That being said I have found lately that Windows 10 is becoming harder and harder to justify running!

I'm only using it at work, and we're still on 1709 (with security updates of course). I've got to deal with bugs in WSL that have been fixed for years. At home I use Windows 8.1.