Windows Subsystem for Linux

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

Getting WSL2

See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

• Enable WSL

  dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart

• Enable Virtual Machine Platform

  dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestart

• Reboot
• Set WSL to be default

  wsl --set-default-version 2

  • Install the kernel from https://aka.ms/wsl2kernel if prompted to do so.
• Download a linux distro from the Microsoft Store WSL page

WSL 1 vs WSL 2

See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/compare-versions.
Basically WSL 2 is a full linux kernel running in a VM.
WSL 1 is a compatibility layer on top of the Windows kernel.
Nvidia is working on CUDA for WSL 2.