Windows 10 Home WSL 2 & Hyper-V

Windows Home WSL & Hyper V

WSL 2 is available on all Desktop SKUs where WSL is available, including Windows 10 Home and Windows 11 Home.

The newest version of WSL uses Hyper-V architecture to enable its virtualization. This architecture will be available in the 'Virtual Machine Platform' optional component. This optional component will be available on all SKUs.

control panel install vm platform

control panel install wsl

check wsl version

C:\> wsl --version

WSL version: 1.0.3.0
Kernel version: 5.15.79.1
WSLg version: 1.0.47
MSRDC version: 1.2.3575
Direct3D version: 1.606.4
DXCore version: 10.0.25131.1002-220531-1700.rs-onecore-base2-hyp
Windows version: 10.0.19045.2364

even if it says 1 it might be 2

also check the hyperv vethernet wsl is running !

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