%AppData%\rancher-desktop\provisioning\fix.start Contents:

#!/bin/sh

sysctl -w fs.inotify.max_user_instances=262144

sysctl -w fs.inotify.max_user_watches=262144

sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144

As far as I can tell that has no effect on the running values though

I recently updated from 1.7

Modifying the values directly works but I assume it may not be persisted

wsl -d rancher-desktop

sysctl -w fs.inotify.max_user_instances=262144

sysctl -w fs.inotify.max_user_watches=262144

You can also set an environment variable to disable the config file watching per container if you don't require it:

ASPNETCORE_hostBuilder__reloadConfigOnChange=false

But, it would be nice to get the provisioning approach working