Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux Debian

2023-03-07 Thread Richmond
didier gaumet  writes:

> Le 07/03/2023 à 21:17, Richmond a écrit :
>> I have Debian 11 on Windows Subsystem for Linux, but it is using a
>> version 4 kernel. (I have established that it is debian 11 by looking in
>> /etc/issue, and /etc/apt/sources). The Kernel says it is Microsoft:
>> 4.4.0-19041-Microsoft #2311-Microsoft
>> So I guess this is not really a kernel? as the version is a Windows
>> version number, although I am on Windows 19045.2604.
>> Who supports Debian 11 for WSL? It is in the Microsoft Store. Why is
>> it
>> on version 4 kernel?
>
> Hello,
>
> Warning: I do not use WSL1/WSL2
>  but I would say that your Debian was installed as a WSL1 distro
>  (typical 4.4 pseudo linux kernel (translator, sort of)) and you could 
> migrate it to WSL2 (5.15 kernel presently, in a Hyper-V VM).
> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/compare-versions
> https://superuser.com/questions/1628023/check-wsl-version-1-or-2-inside-the-linux-installation
> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/kernel-release-notes

It seems I had not upgraded to WSL2. I thought I had. Now I have done
that I am on the right kernel.

5.15.90.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 #1



Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux Debian

2023-03-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 08:17:41PM +, Richmond wrote:
> I have Debian 11 on Windows Subsystem for Linux, but it is using a
> version 4 kernel. (I have established that it is debian 11 by looking in
> /etc/issue, and /etc/apt/sources). The Kernel says it is Microsoft:
> 
> 4.4.0-19041-Microsoft #2311-Microsoft
> 
> So I guess this is not really a kernel? as the version is a Windows
> version number, although I am on Windows 19045.2604.
> 
> Who supports Debian 11 for WSL? It is in the Microsoft Store. Why is it
> on version 4 kernel?
>

The kernel version *is* provided by Microsoft - it has been engineered by them
to work with Windows.

Having just updated a Windows 10 laptop - there was a wsl.exe update to
install.

The WSL version I had installed was from the Microsoft store as version 1.0
After the latest update today 20230307: wsl.exe --version reports

WSL version: 1.1.3.0
Kernel version: 5.15.90.1
WSLg version: 1.0.49
MSRDC version: 1.2.3770
Direct3D version: 1.608.2-61064218
DXCore version: 10.0.25131.1002-220531-1700.rs-onecore-base2-hyp
Windows version: 10.0.19045.2546

Essentially, as you do your updates so updated kernels get posted as part
of Windows Update from Microsoft.

Hope this helps,

Andy Cater



Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux Debian

2023-03-07 Thread didier gaumet

Le 07/03/2023 à 21:17, Richmond a écrit :

I have Debian 11 on Windows Subsystem for Linux, but it is using a
version 4 kernel. (I have established that it is debian 11 by looking in
/etc/issue, and /etc/apt/sources). The Kernel says it is Microsoft:

4.4.0-19041-Microsoft #2311-Microsoft

So I guess this is not really a kernel? as the version is a Windows
version number, although I am on Windows 19045.2604.

Who supports Debian 11 for WSL? It is in the Microsoft Store. Why is it
on version 4 kernel?


Hello,

Warning: I do not use WSL1/WSL2
 but I would say that your Debian was installed as a WSL1 distro 
(typical 4.4 pseudo linux kernel (translator, sort of)) and you could 
migrate it to WSL2 (5.15 kernel presently, in a Hyper-V VM).

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/compare-versions
https://superuser.com/questions/1628023/check-wsl-version-1-or-2-inside-the-linux-installation
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/kernel-release-notes



Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux Debian

2023-03-07 Thread John Hasler
 Richmond writes:
> Who supports Debian 11 for WSL? It is in the Microsoft Store. Why is
> it on version 4 kernel?

No one here knows what changes Microsoft made in the process of
producing WSL or why they made them.  Ask Microsoft.
-- 
John Hasler 
j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA



Windows Subsystem for Linux Debian

2023-03-07 Thread Richmond
I have Debian 11 on Windows Subsystem for Linux, but it is using a
version 4 kernel. (I have established that it is debian 11 by looking in
/etc/issue, and /etc/apt/sources). The Kernel says it is Microsoft:

4.4.0-19041-Microsoft #2311-Microsoft

So I guess this is not really a kernel? as the version is a Windows
version number, although I am on Windows 19045.2604.

Who supports Debian 11 for WSL? It is in the Microsoft Store. Why is it
on version 4 kernel?