Restarting the vmcompute service worked for me. From an elevated PowerShell (close WSL2 first though!): Get-Service vmcompute | Restart-Service And then run WSL2 again.
Short answer for most recent Windows versions mDNS has been a feature of WSL2 for a while now. Concatenating your WSL2 hostname (or the equivalent command/function in your programming/language environment) with “.local” should get you access. For example, from Bash, try: ping “$(hostname).local” For instance, if your hostname is “MyComputer”, then the mDNS should be … Read more
Using PyCharm Professional with WSL Python on Win10 Starting SSH PyCharm can only be configured to use WSL Python as a Remote Interpreter (this is due to lack of other public API). Install Win10 build 14361 or later. You also can upgrade your current Insider Preview. Install wsl (something like lxrun /install` && lxrun /update … Read more
You can use a commandline field in your profile configuration to initiate an SSH connection on tab creation. Step-by-step guide: Ensure you have an SSH client (try to connect to the server from a Command Prompt tab). @dhgouveia2’s post details this step. Open Settings (Ctrl+,) Find the “list” array in the “profiles” object Find a … Read more
WSL2 assigns IP address to the Windows host dynamically and the IP addresses can change without even rebooting Windows (see Notes below). So to reliably connect we’ll need to: Allow Windows and Postgres to accept connections from the WSL2 IP address range (not allowed by default) From WSL2, determine the Windows/Postgresql host’s IP address (which … Read more
The following works in bash on Windows 10, macOS, and Linux: #!/bin/bash set -e if grep -qEi “(Microsoft|WSL)” /proc/version &> /dev/null ; then echo “Windows 10 Bash” else echo “Anything else” fi You need to check for both “Microsoft” and “WSL” per this comment by Ben Hillis, WSL Developer: For the time being this is … Read more
You can own the file you want to edit, then give it back the ownership afterwards sudo chown myuser /path/to/file code /path/to/file sudo chown root /path/to/file
The docker-desktop-data distro is used by the docker-desktop distro as the backing store for container images etc. When docker is run under Hyper-V the same result is achieved by mounting a VHD in the Hyper-V image but this isn’t possible with WSL2. To quote from the docker blog introducing the new wsl2 backend: This will … Read more
In Build 14393 or later, if you want to copy something to clipboard in WSL console, just add ‘.exe’ to what you do in Windows cmd. echo “aaa”|clip.exe To read from clipboard: powershell.exe -command “Get-Clipboard”
It looks like /proc/version in Ubuntu on Windows contains: Linux version 3.4.0-Microsoft (Microsoft@Microsoft.com) (gcc version 4.7 (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Dec 31 14:42:53 PST 2014 and my version of Ubuntu has: Linux version 4.4.0-31-generic (buildd@lgw01-16) (gcc version 5.3.1 20160413 (Ubuntu 5.3.1-14ubuntu2.1) ) #50-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 13 00:07:12 UTC 2016 This code is … Read more