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Broadly speaking WSL1 is linux implemented in the windows kernel, think reverse wine. WSL2 is linux running on a thin VM with several bridge layers that can acc

by nodja 4y ago

Broadly speaking WSL1 is linux implemented in the windows kernel, think reverse wine. WSL2 is linux running on a thin VM with several bridge layers that can access windows resources (networking, files, GPU, etc.)

dm319 4y ago
Isn't WSL1 everything _but_ linux? I.e. more like gnu/WinNT.
schappim 4y ago
Thanks for the explanation! I always knew that WSL1 was implemented on the Windows kernel and thought it was quite ambitious - props to them! I didn't know they moved to the VM model for WSL2.