Downgrade to WSL1, if you want to save yourself from days of wasted effort. I’ve upgraded to WSL2 and tried a bit to get VirtualBox to work with it and I couldn’t find anything useful. There are few guides suggesting that turning off some features of VirtualBox will make it work, however it will make … Read more
It is possible to achieve smooth scrolling VirtualizingStackPanels in WPF 4.0 without sacrificing virtualization if you’re prepared to use reflection to access private functionality of the VirtualizingStackPanel. All you have to do is set the private IsPixelBased property of the VirtualizingStackPanel to true. Note that in .Net 4.5 there’s no need for this hack as … Read more
This is a fast solution, but not very accurate when it comes to end-user specs, but it helps a lot to test things on slower systems: Go to Power Options -> Create a power plan -> Change advanced power settings and set CPU Maximum Rate to 5% or how much you need. This usually helps … Read more
I can say this from personal experience because I am dealing with this very problem as we speak. The place I am currently working as a contractor has this type of environment for their SQL Server development systems. I am trying to develop a fairly modest B.I. system on this environment and really struggling with … Read more
Shadow page tables are used by the hypervisor to keep track of the state in which the guest “thinks” its page tables should be. The guest can’t be allowed access to the hardware page tables because then it would essentially have control of the machine. So, the hypervisor keeps the “real” mappings (guest virtual -> … Read more
Update (December 2020) You can now do GPU pass-through on Windows, if you use WSL 2 as the backend for Docker: WSL 2 GPU Support is Here – that is a slightly neater method than running Docker inside WSL. Original answer: GPU access from within a Docker container currently isn’t supported on Windows. You need … Read more
Depending on what type of virtual drive you wish to build, here are some new OS API recently introduced in Windows, macOS and iOS. Some of the below API is available as managed .NET code on Windows but many are a native Windows / macOS / iOS API. Even though, I was able to consume … Read more
As wikipedia knows in its Context switch article, “context switch is the process of storing and restoring the state (context) of a process so that execution can be resumed from the same point at a later time.“. I’ll assume context switch between two processes of the same OS, not the user/kernel mode transition (syscall) which … Read more