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InfluxDB
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WorkOS
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FreeCAD
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SaaSHub
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WSL reviews and mentions
- Windows VBS
- [Bashonubuntuonwindows] \"Veuillez activer la fonctionnalité Windows Virtual Machine Platform et vous assurer que la virtualisation est activée dans le BIOS.\ »
- Why do I get two different results from different PCs
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can't use WSL2 despite virtualization and Windows machine platform feature enabled, and error message says thye're not.
I have found some documentation here https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/issues/536 and here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/faq#will-i-be-able-to-run-wsl-2-and-other-3rd-party-virtualization-tools-such-as-vmware--or-VirtualBox and intend to read them fully including the links inside them tomorrow or the day after when I have time.
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There are literally no reasons to choose an iPhone over an Android smartphone
Off the top of my head was this bug that caused a lot of people using vbox to swap to vmware. Just a bunch of really annoying compatibility bugs that made it a nightmare if you were trying to use it like a native linux instance.
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Is Microsoft's CBL-Mariner Going to Become Microsoft Linux?
>and I’m almost certain that when you run multiple wsl distros they are all in one VM, though that may be wrong
Yes, they run as containers.
From https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/issues/1573#issuecommen...:
WSL distributions (instances) are not VMs. They are best described as "containers" running inside the WSL2 VM. Each WSL2 distribution/instance has its own isolated:
PID namespace
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Unable to run any docker container using WSL2
(As I've understood, Hyper-V Management Tools should not be needed when using WSL2, based on: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/issues/899)
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Kernel Panic when trying to install AlmaLinux 9 in VirtualBox
Here https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/issues/536
- Docker for Windows failing to start: "WSL system related access rights are not set correctly"
- AlmaLinux / WSL2 / Start Apache
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MicrosoftDocs/WSL is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of WSL is PowerShell.