windows wsl1 to wsl2 code example

Example 1: wsl2 windows 10

//Enable WSL 2 on windows 10 - Run these from an admin powershell
//Enable Microsoft Hyper V first
DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /All /FeatureName:Microsoft-Hyper-V
bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto
wsl.exe --set-version Ubuntu 2

"The Hyper-V feature is not required, but Virtual Machine Platform (which includes the Hyper-V hypervisor) is required"

Example 2: wsl convert to wsl2

wsl --set-version <Distro> 2

# For setting all future distributions to use WSL 2
wsl --set-default-version 2

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