To install Ubuntu on my Windows 10 machine, I will take a page from Microsoft’s documentation and install a Linux distribution (Ubuntu) on a Windows 10 computer all from PowerShell. Notice the Windows file system is mounted on my Linux distribution under /mnt/c: Here, I perform the same command from my Bash shell in my Linux WSL instance on the same Windows directory. In addition, you can interact with your Windows host from your Bash prompt, and also run Linux commands from cmd and PowerShell.įor instance, from PowerShell I can now do run ls –la on my Windows directory by using the wsl.exe executable: The difference with WSL, is that you don’t have the same overhead in terms of resources as a virtual machine.
When I heard of WSL, one of the first thoughts I had was the question, “Why not just use a VM instead like we have been doing for years?” First, this is certainly still something IT professionals or developers can do.
Now, you can even install a Linux distribution directory on Windows 10 natively (without using a VM) with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). PowerShell is now cross-platform and runs on Linux. Since the hiring of Satya Nadella as Microsoft’s CEO, we have seen countless acts of goodwill as Microsoft has embraced Linux into its ecosystem.
That war may still be happening, but at least from the perspective of Microsoft, an olive branch has been extended to the Linux community. Each faction trying to destroy the other and win the war of the operating systems. Sorry if these are “newb” level questions, but I’ve never used a VM before so I have zero knowledge of what I’m doing.There once was a time where the worlds of Microsoft and Linux were greatly at odds. What VM would folks here recommend for embedding Win10 in Manjaro? VirtualBox? QEMU? Other?Ĭan a program running in “Windows in Linux VM” have any way of knowing that it’s actually running in Linux? (Some programs aggressively attempt to determine if they are actually being run via Linux and will refuse to work if they are.) I then intend to install MS-Windows-10 in a virtual machine in Manjaro, so that I can run certain pieces of Windows software that can’t run in Wine.īut three questions rear their heads that need answering before I can proceed:ĭoes installing an OS such as MS-Win-10 in a VM in Linux need a separate NTFS partition? Or can it be done into a “virtual” partition, actually in my main EXT4 or BTRFS partition? I intend to partition both as GPT and EXT4. I have 2 Samsung 980pro M2 SSD cards, one 500GB (earmarked for “/”) and one 2TB (earmarked for “/home”). I’m about to finish assembly on the new computer I’m building, and I’ve gotten to the point of partitioning the SSDs.
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