Microsoft does a good job of burying it beneath a long list of pages that suggest you run Windows Update, but I’ve got the link for you. No luck? Not to worry! We can manually get the update with the Windows Update Assistant. If you haven’t got the update yet, head to Windows Update and check for updates. The first prerequisite is to have the Windows Update. So, let’s stop talking and get to update our Ubuntu 18.04 WSL environment to Ubuntu 20.04 running on WSL2.
Sweet!įurthermore, with WSL2, VPN connections automatically propagate to linux correctly, which is great news when working from home. This will also be used by Docker under the hood, boosting the start-up time and general performance of our containers. This new version brings real virtualization using a real linux kernel, but, compared to a traditional virtual machine, it runs on a lightweight hypervisor getting close to bare-metal performance. WSL2 is the second iteration of the Windows Subsystem for Linux which finally allows running linux virtualized inside Windows. Now that the Windows Update is finally available to everyone, without requiring to join the Windows Insiders program and install preview versions, it’s finally time to embrace WSL2.
