Tag: wsl

Adding in WSL into Hyper-V VM in Windows Server

Default Windows OS doesn’t allow hyperV feature to be enabled in VM

Create nested Hyper-V

  1. Shut down the VM.
  2. In the host open Powershell with administrator rights.

    Set-VMprocessor ExposeVirtualizationExtension $true
    VMName
  3. Turn on VM.

Installation

  1. Open PowerShell with administrator rights

    Hyper-V is requirement for WSL installation
    Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V -All

    Enable WSL
    Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux
  2. Windows server does not have Microsoft store, we will have to download the distribution files.
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-manual#downloading-distributions
  3. Extract the .appx package’s contents, using PowerShell:

Copy-Item .\Ubuntu.appx .\Ubuntu.zip
Expand-Archive .\Ubuntu.zip .\Ubuntu

Add-AppxPackage .\app_name.appx

Add your Linux distribution path to the Windows environment PATH
$userenv = System.Environment::GetEnvironmentVariable("Path", "User")
[System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("PATH", $userenv + ";C:\Users\Administrator\Ubuntu", "User")

You can now launch your distribution from any path by typing .exe. For example:
ubuntu.exe.

After launching the ubuntu.exe you might encounter Kernel error. WslRegisterDistribution failed with error: 0x800701bc,

link to package https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-manual

Reference

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-on-server

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-manual#downloading-distributions