Roots with WSL 2

trellis
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WSL 2 is due for general release on May 28th. Whilst I know it’s been available for a while with insider builds. Do we know if the roots guide for Windows setup needs updating for WSL 2? I am seeing conflicting reports whether Virtualbox works with WSL 2.

Microsoft
Some 3rd party applications cannot work when Hyper-V is in use, which means they will not be able to run when WSL 2 is enabled, such as VMware and VirtualBox. However, recently both VirtualBox and VMware have released versions that support Hyper-V and WSL2! You can learn more about VirtualBox’s changes here and VMware’s changes here.

  • I followed the VirtualBox link and found no mention of WSL 2 at all.

I’ve recently had to start using Windows at work instead of OSX, and I am relatively new to the Windows setup. It’s working, just slow in areas, working on it and will report back.

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We haven’t had any actual reports yet, so if you do try it out it would be appreciated if you report back and let us know if it worked or not :smile:

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I haven’t had any issues regarding Hyper V, Vagrant or Virtual Box. But i get another problem with WP-CLI on vagrant up like i mentioned in another post: Bad Signature from “WP-CLI Releases” using the latest versions of Virtual Box and Vagrant.

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I am using a docker setup for developing with roots.io bedrock/sage instead of using vagrant.
Vagrant has always been painful for me, Docker also got issues but it is still much better.

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