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Re:Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows by dx034 on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:11AM (#23788980)
Shouldn't WSL do the trick? Especially with WSL2 I found no need to use a dedicated virtual machine to use Linux applications in Windows.
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Re:Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows by shakna on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:51AM (#23789171)
WSL2 _is_ a dedicated virtual machine for Linux on Windows. It runs under Hyper-V.
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Re:Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows by Already__Taken on Friday July 10, 2020 @07:17AM (#23790320)
That was wsl1, wsl2 is much tighter integrated than just thinking of it as a VM running in hyper V.
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Re:Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows by ygra on Friday July 10, 2020 @07:35AM (#23790452)
WSL 1 was not a virtual machine. It was a re-implementation of the Linux kernel API within the Windows kernel. As such, it's probably more comparable to CoLinux (if that's still a thing).
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Re:Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows by jawngee on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:59AM (#23790205)
It's not really about running linux applications as much as running your application in the same or similar environment to what you are ultimately deploying on.
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Re:Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows by siliconapex on Friday July 10, 2020 @05:58PM (#23797029)
Exactly, I could run in WSL but I run in Docker or VirtualBox to emulate the production environment.
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