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Investigate how to handle WSL2 enhancement available in the 'insiders'/store release; systemd support #15967
Description
Several new features are being delivered through the Windows Store version of WSL2, as part of an insiders preview. Such as, systemd support: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/systemd-support-is-now-available-in-wsl/
This means there could be two version available; the in-Windows delievered WSL binary or one provided by in-store. This might lead to inconsistencies in the deployment or conflicts when someone enables systemd support for the podman machine distro. We might have to do feature detection and enable this accordingly.
@n1hility WDYT?
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n1hility commentedon Sep 29, 2022
Since Windows 11 has a limited device install footprint (due to the TPM requirements), I think we should hold off on this, at least until it winds up in Windows 10
github-actions commentedon Oct 30, 2022
A friendly reminder that this issue had no activity for 30 days.
rhatdan commentedon Oct 30, 2022
@gbraad @n1hility any movement on this?
n1hility commentedon Oct 30, 2022
It looks like a Microsoft has this still in Preview. I think we are in a holding pattern before this is widely available.
gbraad commentedon Nov 23, 2022
It seems this now generally available, and interestingly also for Windows 10.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-in-the-microsoft-store-is-now-generally-available-on-windows-10-and-11/
github-actions commentedon Dec 24, 2022
A friendly reminder that this issue had no activity for 30 days.
rhatdan commentedon Jan 3, 2023
@n1hility @gbraad what should we do with this issue?
gbraad commentedon Jan 5, 2023
We have to come up with a strategy on how to handle this. I have been using the systemd support and so far has been flawless
gbraad commentedon Aug 9, 2023
We have to decide to support older versions of WSL and keep using the nested namespace, and only support systend, or go for a detection (which eventually can be dropped) to run either setup when possible.
cfergeau commentedon Mar 12, 2025
For what it's worth, this systemd mode is used by default for recent ubuntus https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/systemd , it's probably now mature enough to be used in podman-machine.
Use WSL systemd support
Use WSL systemd support