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Another clever move from Microsoft and the Windows Teams.
I really hope apple implements something similar, would much prefer to have a well integrated linux vm than the not-quite-linux of macos
Docker is on macOS using the native hypervisor framework, what would be the point?
https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/77
https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/osxfs/#performance-is...
This of course has implications on how you setup Docker on a Windows machine, each way having pros and cons.
[0] https://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2020/01/vmware-workstat...
[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/api/hypervis...
Regarding that, remember a number of years ago, prior to VMs there was a patch set for the Linux kernel porting it to user space -- so you could run Linux as a user process, which ended up functioning similar to running it in a VM. Would WSL2 be closer to this model, or is it really running Linux under a stripped down Hyper V?
Is there a shell+terminal+font combo that folks really like for WSL? I've tried the new terminal beta with zsh and--for reasons I can't quite articulate right now--it feels "off" and I invariably proceed to boot up virtualbox for my debian, i3, kitty, fira code setup to get work done. Maybe it's the break in filesystems and $HOME? Edit: learning that WSL2 does away with the syscall-translating tech and mandates Hyper…
I really hope apple implements something similar, would much prefer to have a well integrated linux vm than the not-quite-linux of macos
I really hope apple implements something similar, would much prefer to have a well integrated linux vm than the not-quite-linux of macos
This is an interesting take considering Linux is Unix-like and macOS is technically a BSD derivative. I don’t think macOS will ever have a Linux syscall translation layer/subsystem (WSL1) nor a lightweight VM with special integration (WSL2) but you can do sort of similar things in third party software, I think. Docker for Mac is using the native VM framework and includes a filesystem integration called osxfs, but des…
Question -- from what I understand, WSL2 is closer to Linux running in a VM, whereas WSL1 was like a Windows kernel level version of Cygwin. Is that mostly correct? Regarding that, remember a number of years ago, prior to VMs there was a patch set for the Linux kernel porting it to user space -- so you could run Linux as a user process, which ended up functioning similar to running it in a VM. Would WSL2 be closer to…
Question -- from what I understand, WSL2 is closer to Linux running in a VM, whereas WSL1 was like a Windows kernel level version of Cygwin. Is that mostly correct? Regarding that, remember a number of years ago, prior to VMs there was a patch set for the Linux kernel porting it to user space -- so you could run Linux as a user process, which ended up functioning similar to running it in a VM. Would WSL2 be closer to…