Subject: Re: bug#53912: [PATCH 0/5] WIP Add WSL support.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 12:41:21 +0200

Hi Alex,

Somehow I hadn’t noticed this patch series before…

Alex Griffin <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Things mostly just work already. To try it out, first generate an
> os tarball:
>
> ┌────
> │ guix system image gnu/system/images/wsl.scm
> └────
>
> Then copy the result to your Windows system and run:
>
> ┌────
> │ wsl --import guix ./guix/ image.tar.gz
> └────
>
> You can now run Guix System under WSL:
>
> ┌────
> │ wsl -d guix
> └────

That seems pretty fun.

You say it’s work in progress; what exactly is missing at this point?

At first sight, it looks mostly ready to me.  What’s missing is a
section like “Running Guix under WSL”, maybe next to “Running Guix in a
VM”.  WDYT?

Better yet would be a “System Images” section under “System
Configuration”, with a subsection dedicated to WSL images.

Ludo’.