There is now a toolset you can install to play nice with VM software and
wsl.

On Fri, Jun 25, 2021, 4:58 PM AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> As mentioned by another reply, WSL2 is best to use. Note that you have to
> have Windows 10 ver. 2004 for a WSL2 installation.
> Here are a couple links I found helpful. Microsoft's documentation is very
> good.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fntjriRe48
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about
>
> I also read along the way that if you are using another Hypervisor (such
> as Virtualbox) on the same machine that there may be some "hiccups". WSL
> uses Windows built-in Virtual Machine architecture since WSL is essentially
> a VM running a Linux distro (and you can run multiple distros under WSL,
> such as Suse, Ubuntu, Redhat, etc).
>
> Hope this helps.
> Peter
>
>
> On 6/25/2021 1:12 PM, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>
> It has received some solid work, and is well documented, let me know if
> you need a hand in geting it running.
>
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 9:53 PM Victor Odhner via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks. My more recent attempts seemed to be leaning towards WSL 2,
>> though the other looked like a much simpler approach.  I hope I don’t have
>> a dozen copies of "Ubuntu 20.04 LTS” cluttering together …
>> ______________
>>
>> On 20210624, at 21:19, Aaron Jones via PLUG-discuss <
>> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10#install-windows-terminal-optional
>>
>> Don’t use wsl 1 but use 2 if you can help it.
>>
>> On Jun 24, 2021, at 8:40 PM, Victor Odhner via PLUG-discuss <
>> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>> I got a Windows 10 laptop to mesh with some (ech!) Microsoft in a
>> project.
>>
>> I’m learning very slowly, since (a) I retired from software in 2013 and
>> (b) have been in recovery since then and (c) I really never stepped outside
>> Linux except for company email.
>>
>> So of course I’ll make Linux available on that computer if I can.
>> But I’m stuck.
>>
>> *Anyone know the steps?*
>> *  I selected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and selected WSL 1.*
>> *  I got a message saying it was installed, but I can’t find a way to
>> start it up.*
>> *  I can’t find any control panel for it.*
>>
>> Any idea how to do this?
>> :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Victor Odhner
>>
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