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[WIP] Windows Subsystem for Linux #63049

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@ghuntley ghuntley commented Jun 13, 2019 •
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backstory

See #30391

technical information

WSL2 is different to WSL1, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-install for specifics but overall does not change how operating system distributions should package, register and ship their distribution into the app store.

See below for reference implementations for WSL1 which also work for WSL2:

contacts at microsoft

There's certain discussions I'll be able to have with Microsoft that others won't (NDA info stuffs) but for everything else these two folks are our contacts:

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  • Registered an account for the NixOS Foundation in the MSFT app store and reserve "NixOS" as an app name.
  • Identify people to help out (comment on this PR and I'll grant you push access)
  • WSL does not support systemd without https://github.com/arkane-systems/genie so we need to check it out.
  • Create expression that generates an installation of nixos (without grub, containermode?) that produces a install.tar.gz
  • Import https://github.com/microsoft/WSL-DistroLauncher, customize it and consume install.tar.gz.
  • Iterate until it works on a Windows 10 machine
  • Send the appx to Microsoft (speak with Geoff) for pre-check verification.
  • How do we make this repeatable ala @GrahamcOfBorg? WSL-DistroLauncher requires windows.
  • Obtain appstore credentials from @edolstra
  • Automatic (or manual via shell script) uploading of the generated appx to the Windows Store

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Renha commented Jun 24, 2019

What kind of people are required for helping out?

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Rizary commented Jun 26, 2019

I can't wait to have NixOS on my WSL2. I hope I can contribute more to this.

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@Rizary @Renha it would be rad to have you help out. Are you able to take on:

Create expression that generates an installation of nixos (without systemd, without grub, containermode?) that produces a install.tar.gz and/or investigate https://github.com/arkane-systems/genie

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This list seems rather opinionated. Should the default packages installed in NixOS not already enough?

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Indeed they are, that's what I need to be personally productive. Before this merges we should change it ship the default packages.

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@ghuntley how is this going? Did @vaibhavsagar and you connect on this after discussing during officehours?

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Rizary commented Sep 2, 2019

@Rizary @Renha it would be rad to have you help out. Are you able to take on:

Create expression that generates an installation of nixos (without systemd, without grub, containermode?) that produces a install.tar.gz and/or investigate https://github.com/arkane-systems/genie

Hi, I will try to look into this after GSoC ended. One thing that I understand is that NixOS is integrated quite tightly with systemd on many levels. I think I am gonna look https://github.com/cloudwatt/nix-container-images as an example.

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Mic92 commented Sep 6, 2019 •
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Why would you want to get rid of systemd? Is WSL2 not now a proper linux kernel that should support it? You can get rid of the bootloader easily: boot.loader.initScript.enable = true; will create a /sbin/init script that can be executed.

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Mic92 commented Jun 1, 2020

Should we close this one and hope somebody else picks it up?

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I was trying https://github.com/Trundle/NixOS-WSL and it worked ok, maybe it could be cleaned up?

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@samueldr samueldr merged commit eaac621 into NixOS:master Jun 15, 2020
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What? no?!

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Mic92 commented Jun 15, 2020

@samueldr I don't think you merged this PR. This sometime happen when people force push.

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(Yeah, I know, I've seen that happen to other people before, but it still is annoying!)

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(Yeah, I know, I've seen that happen to other people before, but it still is annoying!)

(・o・) Apologies for confusion. I've deleted the WSL branch and am starting again from master as quite a bit of time has elapsed.

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