WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history

Re:WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history by smileybarry on Sunday January 03, 2021 @12:09PM (#25623063)

That's just a blog post about the feature being deployed, of course it won't have many examples. Take any PC from the past few years and install Windows 10 x64 on it. It will have VBS enabled and hypervisors that do not support Windows Hypervisor Platform won't work. That's been my experience since at least 2017.

If you click through "capable hardware" to here[1], you'll see the list of requirements for VBS, including:

> Virtualization-based security (VBS) requires the Windows hypervisor, which is only supported on 64-bit IA processors with virtualization extensions, including Intel VT-X and AMD-v.

So it will never be the case on x86/IA32

1: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/dev...

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Re:WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history by AshamedCaptain on Thursday January 07, 2021 @06:35AM (#25669883)

Well, I'm asking because my experience is exactly the opposite. I've installed Windows countless times on systems with all the requirements and HyperV is not enabled. The day it starts being enabled, I don't even want to imagine the number of support calls.

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