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I thought WSL was a compatibility layer similar to Wine, not a full VM?
by dtech 6y ago
I thought WSL was a compatibility layer similar to Wine, not a full VM?
- Osiris 6y agoWSL1 was a translation layer. WSL2 is a VM.
- moooo99 6y agoThe original WSL(1) was. However, the new version, WSL2, brings a lot of architecture changes. Now its basically a virtualized Linux running in Hyper-V. The nice thing about that new architecture is that now applications like Docker can use WSL2 to run the containers which was not possible with previous versions.