I recently encountered a network issue where my WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) distro was unable to retrieve DNS and connect to the internet without me changing /etc/resolv.conf. Likewise, Windows was unable to connect to the WSL2 ports via localhost. To quickly workaround these issues, I set my nameserver to be 1.1.1.1 in /etc/resolv.conf and […]
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is pure awesome, and WSL2 is even more awesome. (If you’ve never heard of it before, it’s Linux running inside Windows 10 – not as a virtual machine or emulator, but as a fully supported environment that shares the machine.) I’ve been testing WSL2 for a few months now as […]
I’m a huge fan of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), especially WSL2 which uses a virtualisation layer to bring increased performance and compatibility to WSL. However, one of the few downsides of WSL2 is that it uses a virtual disk (VHDX) to store the filesystem. This means you can end up in a situation where […]