[Info-vax] This is for the folks who get comp.os.vms via the Info-VAX mailing list

Craig A. Berry craigberry at nospam.mac.com
Wed Dec 6 17:07:34 EST 2023


On 12/6/23 3:45 PM, Ken Robinson wrote:

> I wonder whether it will ever be possible to run VMS under WSL2 on Windows
> like I run Ubuntu. I do almost all my Drupal development on an instance of
> Ubuntu that runs under WSL2.

My understanding of WSL2 is that it is just an Ubuntu instance running
under Hyper-V with some integrations to allow local file access (though
slower than WSL1 at that).  There have been mentions of possibly
supporting OpenVMS x86 on Hyper-V at some point.  I don't know the state
of that.




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