Rancher Desktop (1.6.0) Windows - WSL - Nothing Displayed Hi, I do not see anything under WSL. Can someone help? Below is the screenshot of what I see on my end. Please advise. Thanks,

do you have other WSL2 distros installed (wsl -v -l)? You don’t need to interact with RD via another WSL distro and can use powershell/terminal/cmd and it works just fine.

Below is what I have in my system: C:\>wsl -l -v NAME STATE VERSION * rancher-desktop Running 2 rancher-desktop-data Stopped 2 C:\>

so you don’t have any other distros like Ubuntu or CentOS so you won’t see any distros in the list to integrate with?

I was under the assumption that it will allow setting hardware configurations such as disc and RAM utilization. Is it correct to understand that based on my distro, nothing will be displayed on the UI? Another thing that I want to check is related to rancher-desktop-data. I always see it under the stopped state. Is that expected behavior? If not, what needs to be done?

yup but thats the WSL integration tab. It shows other WSL environments you want to tie into. Check the other pref panels if you want to resize the rancher alpine distro. And yes data distro is just sort of a read only sandbox filesystem to allow for resets etc

@wide-mechanic-33041 Would you mind responding below observation? C:\>wsl -l -v NAME STATE VERSION * rancher-desktop Running 2 rancher-desktop-data Stopped 2 C:\> Another thing that I want to check is related to rancher-desktop-data. I always see it under the stopped state. Is that expected behavior? If not, what needs to be done?

you don’t need to do anything? the data distro is mounted by the live distro as a read only file system

Ok. Got it. Thanks.

just try and use the product. you can use docker/nerdctl/kubectl from your terminal

Ok. Thanks

Minor niggle: the rancher-desktop-data volume is not read-only. It is used mostly to store all the images you build or pull

yeah my fault spend most of my time on a mac, but do compat work on windows so get the two UIs twisted up in my brain 😵‍💫