Installing WSL 2
2020 - 11 - 29
Pre-requirements
- Windows 10 May 2020 (2004) // or older Windows 10 May 2019 (1903) / or Windows 10 November 2019 (1909)
- A computer with Hyper-V Virtualization support
Steps Overview
- Enable WSL 2
- Enable ‘Virtual Machine Platform’
- Set WSL 2 as default
- Install a Linux distro
- Download the lateest kernel to update [ref]
Powershell CML
dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart # Enable WSL
dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestart # Enable ‘Virtual Machine Platform’
# Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName VirtualMachinePlatform -NoRestart # older win10
wsl --set-version Ubuntu 2 # convert current installed
wsl --set-default-version 2 # for future installations
ref: OMG Ubuntu.co.uk