
With WSL2 enabled, the next step is to enable the virtual machine needed to run the Linux kernel. In order to enable WSL2 open PowerShell as administrator and enter this commandĭism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart The steps below can be used for any WSL version, however in the following we will consider WSL2. WSL1 is available on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 while WSL2 is available only on recent Windows 10 versions. The goal of this article is to explain the steps needed to setup WSL terminal with similar look and feel as in Linux or macOS. While this is another step toward Linux integration with Windows, the WSL terminal setup on Windows is not as easy as in macOS or Linux, missing, until recently, the tabs support. WSL ensures near native system performance and is targeted toward developers and system administrators working on open-source projects or with remote Linux servers. In June 2019 WSL 2 was announced with a Linux kernel running in a Virtual Machine (VM) backend based on a subset of Hyper-V features instead of using a system-call adaptation layer with no Linux kernel. In the initial Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) release only Ubuntu image was available, but one year later several other Linux images were also supported. Windows operating system has introduced the ability to run Linux binary executables natively in August 2016.
