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Personally, i think that VirtualBox is really nice as far as virtualization software goes (the UI in particular having good usability), but admittedly Hyper-V i
by KronisLV 5y ago
Personally, i think that VirtualBox is really nice as far as virtualization software goes (the UI in particular having good usability), but admittedly Hyper-V is also good for when you cannot run it.
That said, for a while i actually ran VirtualBox on some of my homelab servers as a really simple hypervisor, since software like RemoteBox kept the familiar and easy to use UI and allowed me to use it as a desktop app: https://remotebox.knobgoblin.org.uk/?page=about https://remotebox.knobgoblin.org.uk/?page=about
Of course, Docker Desktop also supports WSL2 on Windows instead of Hyper-V, so it's not like you're always forced to use it: https://docs.docker.com/desktop/windows/wsl/ https://docs.docker.com/desktop/windows/wsl/
On an unrelated note, Rancher Desktop also seems promising: https://rancherdesktop.io/ https://rancherdesktop.io/
- kristianp 5y agoWSL2 requires hyper-v, so you need it for Docker either way.
- KronisLV 5y agoHuh. Seems like it's more interesting than that: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/issues/899 https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/issues/899 > ...for WSL2 you only need "Virtual Machine Platform" (a subset of Hyper-V) and "Windows Subsystem for Linux" features, both available in Home edition. Also there's this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/faq#will-i-be-able-to-run-wsl-2-and-other-3rd-party-virtualization-tools-such-as-vmware--or-virtualbox- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/faq#will-i-be-a... > However, recently both VirtualBox and VMware have released versions that support Hyper-V and WSL2. Learn more about VirtualBox's changes here and VMware's changes here. For troubleshooting issues, take a look at the VirtualBox issue discussions in the WSL repo on GitHub.