Windows 10 Insider Fast Ring, tested on build 19645.1
Ubuntu 20.04 on WSL 2
An Intel Core i5+ CPU* 
An X server for Windows, e.g. X410 or VcXsrv (F

Accelerated KVM guests on WSL 2

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Windows 10 Insider Fast Ring, tested on build 19645.1 Ubuntu 20.04 on WSL 2 An Intel Core i5+ CPU* An X server for Windows, e.g. X410 or VcXsrv (For now, native GUI support and GPU acceleration is coming!) At least 16GB RAM At least 40GB free hard drive space

*AMD users: WSL 2 runs in a lightweight Hyper-V platform on any edition of Windows 10. Hyper-V just got AMD nested virtualization support. They have said Linux KVM guest support is coming.

Familiarity with building a Linux kernel** Familiarity with KVM, QEMU, or virtualization technology Windows Terminal (Get it. It's fast!)

**If you are not ready to build Linux kernel modules but want to get started, check out my guide on running Windows 2000 with QEMU on WSL.

You need a kernel. You could use any kernel, including one from your distro, but for simplicity I use the default Microsoft WSL terminal as a base.

There may be more recent WSL 2 kernels available but this has only been tested on 4.19.104 (and you will need 4.19.121 or higher for GPU compute):

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