Initial Impressions of WSL 2

Re:Initial Impressions of WSL 2 by jessermeyer on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @08:40AM (#23090234)

WSL2 is a full blown emulator / virtualization solution, so it runs a real linux kernel / distribution. The largest downside to me is no gpu passthrough from the host.

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Re:Initial Impressions of WSL 2 by tyingq on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @08:49AM (#23090311)

They say GPU passthrough is on the backlog in their post build FAQ. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl-2-post-build-...

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Re:Initial Impressions of WSL 2 by jessermeyer on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @12:42PM (#23093179)

I've been tracking that. Almost certainly AMD exclusive since, AFAIK, NVIDIA prohibits GPU passthrough on their consumer cards so VPNs are forced into purchasing 'professional' grade GPUs.

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Re:Initial Impressions of WSL 2 by satvikpendem on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @08:43AM (#23090257)

You can even compile your own custom kernel for it. I've had to do so in order to run some modules that the WSL 2 kernel currently doesn't have.

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