easyWSL
Create WSL distros based on Docker Images. (by redcode-labs)
usbipd-win
Windows software for sharing locally connected USB devices to other machines, including Hyper-V guests and WSL 2. (by dorssel)
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| easyWSL | usbipd-win | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 17 | |
| 541 | 3,003 | |
| 0.6% | - | |
| 5.9 | 9.0 | |
| 19 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| C# | C# | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
easyWSL
Posts with mentions or reviews of easyWSL.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
usbipd-win
Posts with mentions or reviews of usbipd-win.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
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What's Your Primary Operating System for Development on Your PC/Laptop?
If (like me) you're stuck on Windows, WSL2 is really awesome. It's super fast, and requires very minimal setup to get it up and running. The VS Code integration is superb. You can even connect USB devices to WSL now, which makes it very suitable for embedded. You get nearly the performance of a full OS install, unlike a typical VM. On my machine it's about 50% faster than Virtualbox.
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Planespotting with Rust: using nom to parse ADS-B messages
ADS-B is a protocol used by aircrafts to broadcast their position, altitude, speed, and other information. Nowadays, the majority of aircrafts broadcast ADS-B messages constantly. Anyone with the right equipment can listen to these messages. You can buy a relatively cheap USB dongle with an antenna on Amazon and install drivers for it on Linux. In my case I used usbipd-win to mount the USB device inside Ubuntu running in WSL2. Then I installed the Linux drivers and dump1090, a program that makes use of these drivers and then outputs ADS-B messages in a format that is easy to parse. While you can use dump1090 to display a neat table full of information about aircrafts, I wanted to use its raw output capabilities to parse ADS-B messages myself. It starts a simple TCP server that outputs raw ADS-B messages wrapped in Mode-S Beast frames. I'm not sure what Beast means, but I found something that looks like its spec here.
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Running Xrdp Xfce4 on top of Ubuntu/WSL2
Anyway, in the meantime you can try using usbipd-win. Start with:
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Expansion Cards - Are they detected as a seperate device?
Hi, I'm using usbipd to redirect USB devices to a remote virtual machine (USB/IP) for my work and I'd like to know if the expansion cards are detected as their own devices, especially the Ethernet expansion card.
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WSL2 on Zen4 Ryzen: similar performance to running bare metal Linux
What about USB devices support ?
Is there any more integrate solution than:
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Adb devices not listing connect device
There is even a GUI available for usbip-win if you please. Start here: https://github.com/dorssel/usbipd-win
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Formatting a micro SD card via a USB adapter with WSL2 and Windows 11
I installed usbipd as outlined here. When I run lsusb, I can see my USB drive:
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Windows Terminal is now the default Windows 11 22H2 console
Though I see https://github.com/dorssel/usbipd-win may actually work properly as a full usb passthrough now for WSL2?
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Use your Steam Deck as an expensive game controller
For server (e.g. machine that provides devices), https://github.com/dorssel/usbipd-win is a bit more mature - they grabbed the driver infrastructure from virtualbox to handle the issues with code signing.
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Why doesn't my Windows 7 Virtual Machine on Hyper-V detect my iPod Touch 2nd Generation, and how do I get Hyper-V to detect it?
Check this project out. Works with WSL. Should work with Hyper-V too https://github.com/dorssel/usbipd-win
What are some alternatives?
When comparing easyWSL and usbipd-win you can also consider the following projects:
wsl-distrod - Distrod is a meta-distro for WSL 2 which installs Ubuntu, Arch, Debian, Gentoo, etc. with systemd in a minute for you. Distrod also has built-in auto-start feature on Windows startup and port forwarding ability.
container-desktop - Provides an alternative for Docker for Desktop on Windows using WSL2.
FluentDocker - Use docker, docker-compose local and remote in tests and your .NET core/full framework apps via a FluentAPI
gsudo - Sudo for Windows
one-script-wsl2-systemd - The one-script variant of the systemd hack for WSL2
wsl-windows-toolbar-launcher - Adds linux GUI application menu to a windows toolbar
stevedore - 🚢 Docker distribution for Windows Containers that Just Works
usbip-win - USB/IP for Windows
WSL-Context-Menu-Manager - Manages the context menu for your Linux tools in WSL/WSL2 for Windows.
create-mongodb-docker-image-and-connect-from-dot-net-core-app - This blog creates a Docker MongoDB Image container, database, collection and connnect this container through .NET Core Console app to read table data.
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