If you keep following the post at this point you'll set up an Ubuntu 20.10 daily build. Once nested KVM is up and running and you've configured WSL to send X output to windows, you are ready to try a distro. Carry on from 'Exit the Virtualization' paragraph until you get to this command:Įnter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode.KVM for Intel processors was selected as above, note that the AMD selection is below it. Follow the steps in 'Accelerated KVM guests on WSL2' until you reach the section titled Important note about building a module in WSL: Time was fairly tight for getting this up and running, I wasn't going to be tweaking performance and I didn't want to keep loading the KVM for Intel module manually, so:.With this in mind, think twice about running the Dev channel on your main machine, or if you wouldn't consider yourself a highly technical user! If you're OK with that, dive right in : These builds will have rough edges and some instability that could block key activities or require workarounds. Insiders in the Dev Channel will receive builds that is earliest in a development cycle and will contain the latest work-in-progress code from our engineers.

Dev channel is described as Ideal for highly technical users. The insider channel renaming is described here. The windows insider page currently lists 19042.423 as the highest build available in Beta and 19041.423 as Release Preview, so for the moment this will not work correctly without using the Dev channel. One of the features required didn't come into Windows 10 until build 19619 and the nested virtualisation support for AMD didn't come in until build 19636 either, so that's a must if you are on AMD too. The insiders Fast ring which is mentioned in the pre-requisites is now the Dev channel. You'll also need to be running a windows insider build of Windows 10.

If you're already running a hypervisor, it's likely this is good to go. If your CPU does support virtualization it might not be enabled in your BIOS, it's worth a check before you start. Unless you're running an Intel CPU from the early 2000s or even earlier you should be OK. One thing that's not obvious is your CPU needs to support virtualisation. I am still stunned how good the performance is having run through this! I've tried a couple of other Linux distro's too, seriously slick.īefore starting check out the requirements from the top of the 'Accelerated KVM guests on WSL2' post. Then I realised, I finally had an excuse to give this a go! I've been itching to since I read - Accelerated KVM guests on WSL 2, an awesome write-up on how to run accelerated KVM guests on WSL2 from is a walkthrough of how I used the excellent work of and and got my 3 year old XPS Intel i7 to run MacOS on Windows 10! Without their writeups and scripting this post probably wouldn't exist. I needed to record a demo on a Mac, I don't own a Mac and was contemplating borrowing one from a friend.

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