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WSL is not a VM. The upcoming WSL2 might be, though.
I'm pretty sure WSL2 is going to use a user mode kernel
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName VirtualMachinePlatform
The funniest thing would be Microsoft hiring Wine developers to make programs written for old Windows run on newer versions of it.
No, the funniest thing would Microsoft making Windows 11 a Linux distro with a custom version of WINE running ontop of it so that they need to maintain way fewer parts of their operating system themselves.
not just qemu-user, but telling it the magic numbers for binfmt to work
I'll give it a spin when I get home this evening. ENCARTA 97 SHALL RIDE AGAIN, maybe
Hilarious. Props to author for not trying to give a reasonable looking motivation for this beyond "It would be funny". That's more than enough.
But there is a reasonable motivation. Some old games and some other software often don't run well on modern Windows (or sometimes at all). It can be possible to patch them to work but not always and even this relies on motivated and talented fans.
I feel like it would be useful to add "(using WSL)" to the title. I admit I would not have opened the link though, had the title spoiled this part of the story, and the article is funny to read. > Running Wine on Windows has been a fever dream of those responding to the siren call of "we do what we must, because we shouldn't" since at least 2004, when someone tried compiling Wine in Cygwin and trashed the registry of…
The funniest thing would be Microsoft hiring Wine developers to make programs written for old Windows run on newer versions of it.
No, the funniest thing would Microsoft making Windows 11 a Linux distro with a custom version of WINE running ontop of it so that they need to maintain way fewer parts of their operating system themselves.
WSL2 is in beta now if anyone on HN feels like getting 32 bit apps to work.
Am I correct in thinking WSL2 needs Hyper-V to be enabled? What's the advantage of it versus running Ubuntu in a VM and using putty?
This can be very helpful in the future for playing games with strange 16-bit-mixed-with-32-bit installers that fail to run properly on modern Windows, even 32-bit versions. I hope WSL2 comes out soon. Now that installing wine in Linux on windows is possible, the next step becomes clear. We must compile and run cygwin on wine in Linux on Windows.
This project is only completed when you can recursively keep doing this forever, without it ever breaking.
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Any CPU can only have one hypervisor running at a time. Thus the recursion stops pretty quick.
Well, yes and no. On modern enough hardware you can do nested virtualisation, so you can run kvm in esxi on hyper-v if you want. Not that it's very usefull, but it is a fun weekend project nonetheless.
Obviously you could just run minikube under Windows, but then from the Linux VM you can't "minikube ssh" and whatnot, so nested virtualization makes everything a lot simpler.
This would be awesome...I have a bunch of old games that broke when I went to 64-bit Windows. Plus, VMware support for older OSes seems to be getting worse, so that's a less and less viable route.