F42 Change Proposal: Fedora WSL (Self-Contained)

[amoloney (Aoife Moloney)]

This change proposal has now been submitted to FESCo with ticket #3323 for voting.

To find out more, please visit our Changes Policy documentation.

[svin24 (svin)]

I am willing to test said WSL images on my windows machine once they are released.

[osalbahr (Osama Albahrani)]

Happy to test. Where can I find the tarball?

[glb (Gregory Lee Bartholomew)]

Did you find the Fedora Magazine article?: Contribute at the Fedora Test Day for WSL - Fedora Magazine

Edit: It looks like the tarballs are here if you really want to test those.

[Espionage724]

@dudek

Per the proposal, WSL 2.4.4+ is required. Windows 11, even at the 24H2 level is only WSL version 2.3.26.

I’ve only used WSL 1 and quick Ubuntu installs. WSL 2 iirc required CPU virtualization which I usually disable (not used and avoids Windows potentially doing Hyper-V stuff).

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I don’t use WSL nowadays and don’t have anything against the proposal, and seeing Fedora have an official WSL image is cool.

[barryascott]

@dudek

Per the proposal, WSL 2.4.4+ is required. Windows 11, even at the 24H2 level is only WSL version 2.3.26.

So, this will require users to update to a Pre Release of WSL (wsl --update --pre-release). Is this a reasonable ask for the average non-power user base?

When I did the testing I got wsl 2.4.12.0 (did not need a pre-release) and the Fedora install just-worked. I could even run GUI apps.

I’m still on Windows 11 23H2 as its not offering me the upgrade to 24H2 yet.