WSL2

Windows Subsystem for Linux

Installation

1. Run from Admin-PowerShell

dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart
dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestart
wsl --set-default-version 2

1. Update WSL Kernel
2. Restart
3. Install Ubuntu from Microsoft Store

Using New Windows Terminal

• profiles.json
  • set defaultProfile to Ubuntu
  • for linux home dir:

"commandline" : "wsl.exe ~ -d Ubuntu-18.04",

 "profiles":
    [
        {
            "guid": "{c6eaf9f4-32a7-5fdc-b5cf-066e8a4b1e40}",
            "source": "Windows.Terminal.Wsl",
            "name": "Ubuntu-18.04",
            "commandline": "wsl.exe ~ -d Ubuntu-18.04",
            "fontSize": 10
        },
        {
            "name": "server1",
            "commandline": "wsl.exe ~ -d Ubuntu-18.04 ssh server1",
            "fontSize": 10
        }
    ]

Running Linux Commands

• using bash.exe

bash.exe -c "jupyter-notebook ; /bin/bash"

• using wsl

wsl jupyter-notebook &

fstab

z: /mnt/z drvfs rw,relatime 0 0

mount network share

mount -t drvfs '\\server\share' /mnt/share

Nmap

• Install Nmap for Windows
• .bashrc:

alias nmap='"/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Nmap/nmap.exe"'

Linux GUI Apps on Windows

sudo apt install xrdp
sudo apt install xfce4 xfce4-goodies

sudo cp /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini.bak
sudo sed -i 's/3389/3390/g' /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini
sudo sed -i 's/max_bpp=32/#max_bpp=32\nmax_bpp=128/g' /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini
sudo sed -i 's/xserverbpp=24/#xserverbpp=24\nxserverbpp=128/g' /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini
echo xfce4-session > ~/.xsession

/etc/xrdp/startwm.sh:
change to:
  #test -x /etc/X11/Xsession && exec /etc/X11/Xsession
  #exec /bin/sh /etc/X11/Xsession
  startxfce4

sudo /etc/init.d/xrdp start