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So WSL1 is reverse wine basically?
by im3w1l 6y ago
So WSL1 is reverse wine basically?
- apetresc 6y agoNot _exactly_, but it's a pretty close analogy. Certainly moreso than WSL2 is.
- pjmlp 6y agoNope, WSL 1 uses pico processes, a technology based on Drawbridge research. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/drawbridge/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/drawbridge/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/wsl/windows-subsystem-for-linux-overview https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/wsl/windows-s... https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Seth-Juarez/Windows-Subsystem-for-Linux-Architectural-Overview https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Seth-Juarez/Windows-Subsyste... It is a bit more advanced than Wine, with first class support from NT kernel. Whereas WSL 2 uses Hyper-V, which is a type 1 hypervisor, all OSes run as guest, including Windows itself.