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Re: Microsoft Open-Sources WSL2

From "Bill Bradshaw" <bradshaw@gci.net>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy, alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject Re: Microsoft Open-Sources WSL2
Date 2025-05-20 08:18 -0800
Message-ID <m93obhFce6vU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References <100ghnf$1sbnn$8@dont-email.me> <100god6$1tovk$1@dont-email.me>

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Paul wrote:
> On Mon, 5/19/2025 8:17 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) is the hacked-up pile of glue code
>> that lets a Linux kernel run on a Windows installation. Now Microsoft
>> is open-sourcing (nearly) all of that.
>>
>> <https://www.theverge.com/news/669286/microsoft-windows-subsystem-for-linux-open-source>
>>
>> So, do you think this is a good sign or a bad one, in terms of the
>> future of WSL2 and Windows itself? I see that the GitHub repo already
>> has about 1000 open issues ...
>>
>
> Even VirtualBox, does not do its own virtualization any more.
> It uses the Hypervisor, and your Guest runs on the Hypervisor,
> not as a VirtualBox instance. VirtualBox had to add code, so
> VirtualBox
> would be "allowed" to run on W10/W11. That's why the installer stopped
> at one point, and I had to replace VBOX 5 with VBOX 6, just so I would
> be allowed to finish a Windows Upgrade run.
>

I have VirtualBox 7.18 installed and am running several operating systems 
including Win 11 and I do not have any of the Hyper stuff enabled.  I am not 
looking forward to having to convert to Win 11.
-- 
<Bill>

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Microsoft Open-Sources WSL2 Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-20 00:17 +0000
  Re: Microsoft Open-Sources WSL2 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-05-19 22:11 -0400
    Re: Microsoft Open-Sources WSL2 "Bill Bradshaw" <bradshaw@gci.net> - 2025-05-20 08:18 -0800
  Re: Microsoft Open-Sources WSL2 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 <jaworski1978@adres.pl> - 2025-05-20 05:12 +0200
  Re: Microsoft Open-Sources WSL2 Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-05-20 06:50 +0000
    Re: Microsoft Open-Sources WSL2 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-05-20 09:46 -0400

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