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Enable WSL and Install Ubuntu 20.04
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- BIOS of host machine also needs to be configured to allow hardware virtualization | |
- This gist WSLv2, but can use WSLv1 instead. I needed v1 as I run Windows 10 in a VM in Virtualbox. | |
- WSLv2 has been giving me problems in Virtualbox 6.1, but WSLv1 works properly. | |
- vbox has issues with the GUI settings when it comes to nested virtualization on certain systems, | |
so run the following if needing to give a VM this enabled setting: | |
VBoxManage modifyvm <vm-name> --nested-hw-virt on | |
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## IN AN ELEVATED SHELL | |
## Right-click PowerShell -> Run As Administrator | |
# Enable Needed Virtualization | |
dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart | |
dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestart | |
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V -All | |
# Download Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fosa | |
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/focal/release/ubuntu-20.04-server-cloudimg-amd64-wsl.rootfs.tar.gz -OutFile $ENV:HOMEDRIVE$ENV:HOMEPATH\Downloads\ubuntu-20.04-focal-wsl.tar.gz -UseBasicParsing | |
# Setup reserved directory path for WSL VM | |
mkdir c:\UbuntuFocal | |
# Configure WSL for incoming VM | |
# For more information about WSL: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about | |
wsl --set-default-version 2 # Change to '1' if not able to support 2 | |
# Import into WSL | |
wsl.exe --import UbuntuFocal C:\UbuntuFocal $ENV:HOMEDRIVE$ENV:HOMEPATH\Downloads\ubuntu-20.04-focal-wsl.tar.gz | |
wsl # Drops straight into default VM. Will be UbuntuFocal is WSL alternate VM didn't already exist | |
## BONUS: Docker Desktop | |
# Checkout the Install-ChocoStarterPackages gist for setting up choco (and other things): | |
# - https://gist.github.com/ScriptAutomate/02e0cf33786f869740ee963ed6a913c1 | |
# Once chocolatey / choco is installed, and WSL is already configured with UbuntuFocal, | |
# run the following command from PowerShell, and not from within WSL: | |
# choco install docker-desktop -y |
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