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best-city-49378

06/19/2022, 12:06 PM
Same ole Hyper-V either way, but some people find this to be more exciting than VirtualBox
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fast-garage-66093

06/20/2022, 6:27 PM
Are you saying qemu would still use hyper-v on Windows? In that case I think it will have the same issue with UNIX sockets as WSL2.
In addition you probably require Windows Professional for the Hyper-V license. Windows Home allows you to run WSL2 on Hyper-V, but not your own VMs.
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best-city-49378

06/20/2022, 7:10 PM
It uses the same hyper-v framework, if I understand things correctly (WHPX)
No idea about licensing, only tried it on work computer
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fast-garage-66093

06/20/2022, 7:17 PM
I don't know for sure, but I think this means it won't work on Windows Home: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/reference/hyper-v-requirements
That was one of the reason we choose WSL2 for Rancher Desktop (and I suspect was a reason for Docker Desktop as well)
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best-city-49378

06/20/2022, 7:33 PM
I think there are still valid reasons to continue to use WSL2, this QEMU-based experiment is more to use the same base
There is just so much missing from Windows, that I am thinking of only "supporting" MSYS (with MinGW and pacman).