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many-kite-98414

10/21/2022, 10:46 AM
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,
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wide-mechanic-33041

10/21/2022, 12:05 PM
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.
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many-kite-98414

10/21/2022, 12:55 PM
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:\>
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wide-mechanic-33041

10/21/2022, 1:04 PM
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?
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many-kite-98414

10/21/2022, 1:27 PM
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?
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wide-mechanic-33041

10/21/2022, 1:31 PM
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
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many-kite-98414

10/21/2022, 1:43 PM
@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?
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wide-mechanic-33041

10/21/2022, 1:47 PM
you don’t need to do anything? the data distro is mounted by the live distro as a read only file system
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many-kite-98414

10/21/2022, 1:49 PM
Ok. Got it. Thanks.
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wide-mechanic-33041

10/21/2022, 1:50 PM
just try and use the product. you can use docker/nerdctl/kubectl from your terminal
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many-kite-98414

10/21/2022, 3:56 PM
Ok. Thanks
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fast-garage-66093

10/21/2022, 4:11 PM
Minor niggle: the rancher-desktop-data volume is not read-only. It is used mostly to store all the images you build or pull
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Also, on Windows you cannot configure the CPU and memory settings in Rancher Desktop because they are controlled by WSL2 and shared by all distros (it is basically just one VM, and each distro is a container/namespace running on top of the same kernel)
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wide-mechanic-33041

10/21/2022, 5:35 PM
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 😵‍💫
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