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Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by mcpherrinm on Friday January 06, 2017 @05:51PM (#13341049)
Can you expand on this? Are you saying I can't run VMware while Windows Subsystem for Linux is running? I wasn't aware of such a limitation (because I don't use vmware etc.), but would like to know more.
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Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by jackhammons on Friday January 06, 2017 @07:10PM (#13341523)
Heyo, PM for WSL here. Neither VMware, HyperV or any other VM software is required to use Bash on Windows.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/04/22/windows-subs...

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Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by blitzd on Friday January 06, 2017 @06:00PM (#13341103)
I believe it's based upon hyper-v, which typically precludes using other VM software on the same machine. Docker toolbox for Windows 10 has the same issues.
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Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by hirsin on Friday January 06, 2017 @06:20PM (#13341233)
No, WSL does not require hyper-v. It is a totally separate system from hyper-v and does not rely on virtualization of any kind. You can use WSL alongside any other VM software.
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Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by pirocks on Friday January 06, 2017 @06:18PM (#13341214)
I don't know much but the bash on windows thing was a completely separate thing from vm's.
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Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by heroprotagonist on Friday January 06, 2017 @06:09PM (#13341161)
Actually, I might be wrong. I thought it required Hyper-V, since it ran an Ubuntu under the covers, and that assumption might incorrect.

Specifically, it's enabling Hyper-V which makes Windows incompatible with VMware. The incompatibility results in more issues than just those with the bash shell. The big one for me is Docker for Windows:

https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-for-windows-w-vmware-inst...

I think I will just try it out and revert back if there's an issue, since I can't find clear documentation about it being incompatible. So I assume I'm wrong.

I can let you know if you like.

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Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by sitharus on Friday January 06, 2017 @06:26PM (#13341262)
It does run an ubuntu/GNU userspace, but not ubuntu Linux. WSL is a Linux ABI layer for Windows so no virtualisation is needed. It's more like WINE.
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