x11-over-vsock
WSL Daemon - Stable X11 connection and time synchronisation for WSL2 (by nbdd0121)
linux-vm-tools
Hyper-V Linux Guest VM Enhancements (by microsoft)
| x11-over-vsock | linux-vm-tools | |
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| 9 | 8 | |
| 291 | 709 | |
| - | - | |
| 3.8 | 1.9 | |
| 10 months ago | over 3 years ago | |
| Rust | Shell | |
| Apache License 2.0 | 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.
x11-over-vsock
Posts with mentions or reviews of x11-over-vsock.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-25.
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Suggestion on dual booting vs wsl
That vsock thing can be done with GWSL/VcXsrv too. Check this out: https://github.com/nbdd0121/wsld
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Has anyone tried using the new SSH feature to connect to WSL2?
Those that don't want to pay for it, checkout these two neat open source projects called GWSL & WSLD (for vsock). These days I don't care much about using the Linux GUI stuff on Windows anymore, as Microsoft is winning, but once I have to be more serious about it I'll use them again (or do something else.)
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How to explicitly use Vcxsrv, and not WSLg?
This way WSLg will be disabled but you can still use the X servers (like VcXsrv or the other tools that use it like GWSL) which can use X over TCP or X over vsock (there's WSLD which uses vsock for a more stable & reliable connection).
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Comparison of methods for running GUI applications in WSL
wsld can do the same for regular xserver which to me currently looks like best option.
- Terminator will not run on WSL2
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Some initial short thoughts on WSLg vs using vcXsrv X server User Experience.
With the Ubuntu 21.04 Community Preview from MS Store (with the ubuntu.Interop.advancedipdetection: true) it's fine but, if that isn't a distro that one would like to use then WSLD helps with that as well. You can see my post here from a while ago for a quick reference too.
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Introducing Windows 11
Sure, but the experience is pretty rough. It only renders at a single given DPI, so it's bad if you have say, a 4K laptop and 1080p external monitor. And since you have to go over TCP unless you use WSL1 (or some hacks that require admin access), it drops all X11 connections if you suspend/resume in WSL2.
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X Server with VPN connected via WSLD: WSL Daemon (formerly x11-over-vsock)
For automatic startup follow the instructions here (setup using Task Scheduler & ~/.profile / ~/.bash_profile / ~/.zlogin).
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Improving Linux Graphics Performance (Hyper-V vs. VirtualBox)
Install vcxsrv and use X11 forwarding from your Guest to Windows via TCP. If you want this to be really lickety-split or if you do work that messes with your network connection, you can use VSOCK via x11-over-vsock. To get sound working, you can probably install Pulseaudio on windows and connect to your Linux guest that way.
linux-vm-tools
Posts with mentions or reviews of linux-vm-tools.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-04.
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Enhanced session on Linux with Gnome?
https://github.com/microsoft/linux-vm-tools performance is medium -- but twice better than unenhanced.
- Can't enable Enhanced Sessions?
- Using Hyper-V, is it possible to share a folder with a Linux guest that doesn't have a (virtual) network adapter? (i.e. not using the Samba method)
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Confused about whether to use WSL2 or a VM
After following some guides I came across this repo that is now archived: https://github.com/microsoft/linux-vm-tools
- Linux VM runs sluggishly
- Improving Linux Graphics Performance (Hyper-V vs. VirtualBox)
- Speed up GNOME desktop in Hyper-V
What are some alternatives?
When comparing x11-over-vsock and linux-vm-tools you can also consider the following projects:
GWSL-Source - The actual code for GWSL. And some prebuilt releases.
git - A fork of Git containing Windows-specific patches.
wslgit - Use Git installed in Bash on Windows/Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) from Windows and Visual Studio Code (VSCode)
xplr - A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer
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.