go-wsl2-host
Automatically update your Windows hosts file with the WSL2 VM IP address (by shayne)
docker-to-wsl
Build your own wsl distro in docker, based on this example: https://gist.github.com/K0IN/485b6c9e442d10aa666c28672d621604 (by K0IN)
| go-wsl2-host | docker-to-wsl | |
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| 3 | 1 | |
| 1,660 | 96 | |
| 0.1% | - | |
| 0.0 | 7.1 | |
| 9 months ago | 5 months ago | |
| Go | Shell | |
| - | MIT License |
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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.
go-wsl2-host
Posts with mentions or reviews of go-wsl2-host.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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Fixed IP for WSL instances
But that's still tedious, and someone worked on that problem. Here comes WSL2Host.
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Trying to connect from host to WSL2 using WSL2's hostname
You can add that entry to your windows host file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts), but it will change when WSL restarts. There are utilities that automate this addition at boot time.
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How Good is the Development Experience in Windows with WSL2 in 2021?
I've had some issues with getting addresses resolving correctly but this tool https://github.com/shayne/go-wsl2-host works pretty good (you just type in lists of hosts and service refreshes etc file whenever WSL2 IP changes (and it changes with every reboot).
docker-to-wsl
Posts with mentions or reviews of docker-to-wsl.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-09-12.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing go-wsl2-host and docker-to-wsl you can also consider the following projects:
wsldl - Advanced WSL launcher / installer. (Win10 FCU x64/arm64 or later.)
wsl2-distro-manager - A GUI to quickly manage your WSL2 instances
win-gpg-agent - [DEPRECATED] Windows helpers for GnuPG tools suite
wsld - WSLD is a tool for downloading and installing docker images into WSL1 or WSL2 directly. It also supports uploading WSL images into Docker Hub.
wsl2-ssh-pageant - bridge between windows pageant and wsl2
grootfs - Garden root file system