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I'm super disappointed with wsl's move to hyper v. I tried out wsl2 3 months ago, overall system performance took a hit, not just slower WSL experience, but sl

I'm super disappointed with wsl's move to hyper v. I tried out wsl2 3 months ago, overall system performance took a hit, not just slower WSL experience, but slower windows experience too. In addition, I had to choose, wsl2 and no other vms through vmware or virtualbox,. or WSL with vmware and virtualbox. they claim they work together nicely, but they don't. vmware and virtualbox crash, freeze, and crawl to a halt constantly when hyperv is enabled. so back to wsl1 for me. I love WSL, I think it's the future, just please don't build that future on top of hyperv!!! :'(

caspar 5y ago
> In addition, I had to choose, wsl2 and no other vms through vmware or virtualbox,. or WSL with vmware and virtualbox. they claim they work together nicely, but they don't. vmware and virtualbox crash, freeze, and crawl to a halt constantly when hyperv is enabled. Personally I simply swapped to using HyperV for other VMs when I needed them. Turns out I didn't need them that much anyway once WSL2 got good enough. As for performance - I game on Windows still with WSL2 turned on. As long as you limit WSL2's memory usage a bit as described in another thread, I haven't noticed any performance slowdown in Windows. (On the other hand, I have noticed that IO on the linux-side is so much faster in WSL2 than WSL1, which was the main reason I swapped as soon as I could.)