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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/6/2023 5:07 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> 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.

WSL2 is just a VM running Linux kernel with a very nice
Windows integration .

Ubuntu is default distro, but they do support a few other
distros: Debian, Kali, OracleLinux, OpenSUSE and SLES (per
"wsl -l -o" command on my Windows system).

Arne