The WSL2 feature enables a complete Linux system with full compatibility, running an actual Linux kernel in a lightweight and ...

VMware Workstation is a user-space application (aided by a couple of proprietary kernel modules) that creates virtual x86-based computers on top of your physical 32-bit or 64-bit x86-based “host” ...

You'll need to know Linux. It powers most of the world's server infrastructure. You'll find Linux on most web servers, as well as various smaller systems and even many single-board computers (SBCs).

I've always preferred VMWare myself, but I was checking out Sun VirtualBox recently on a 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04 host -- I thought it was pretty slick. You could try that if VMWare isn't doing the ...

Figure 3: The new Ubuntu VM has been created. Although Hyper-V makes the process of deploying an Ubuntu Linux VM super simple, there is a good chance that you will need to make a few tweaks to the VM.

4) I am not aware, that VMWare can do ZFS. You will need a VM running one of Solaris/FreeBSD/Linux to run ZFS and export the filesystem over NFS or Samba. That VM might need full access to the LSI ...

WSL is now ready for prime time The original vision of a Linux-compatible set of APIs on top of Windows proved complex to maintain and would always lag the fast-moving Linux kernel. As a result ...