How to Update from WSL to WSL 2

Enable Virtual Machine (BIOS) / update windows 1) Important: working for Windows 10 latest version & windows 11… 2) Important: The mothe...

Enable Virtual Machine (BIOS) / update windows

1) Important: working for Windows 10 latest version & windows 11…
2) Important: The motherboard and processor must support virtualization, and the option has to be enabled on the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) or Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).

Then Start wsl to wsl-2

1) Windows Start – Search for Turn Windows features on or off and click the top result to open the app. (note:- working for Windows 10 latest version & windows 11) 

Check the “Virtual Machine Platform & Windows Subsystem for Linux” option

2) Click the ok button & Click the Restart button

3) Download this WSL 2 kernel update (required) Click to download .msi file (for Linux kernel update package, more detials visit MicroSoft website.- If needed)  then install wsl_update_x64.msi file and restart computer

4) windows Start Search for PowerShell, right-click the top result, and select the Run as administrator option

5)Type the following command to set Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 your default architecture for new distros that you install, and press Enter

wsl --set-default-version 2

Redy to wsl-2….

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Install ubuntu/deepin/….

View Linux distributions (list online) (ubuntu/deepin &....)

wsl -l -o

now install distribution (ubuntu)

wsl --install Ubuntu-20.04

verify the version of the distribution, below command then press Enter

wsl -l -v

Redy to Ubuntu…..