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Re:VirtualBox 6.1 by tw04 on Friday December 13, 2019 @11:29AM (#21782984)
They've moved away from that due to complaints about I/O performance. There was no way to "fix" it without the hyper-V shim.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/

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Re:VirtualBox 6.1 by techntoke on Friday December 13, 2019 @11:47AM (#21783138)
WSL was a failed attempt by Microsoft, WSL2 will not be any better. Look at the problems it is causing for people already, and it isn't even GA yet.
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