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marty5
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Jun 24, 2026

WSL Install Failures - 2.7.8.0

For those deploying new MCC servers, you may run into an error installing the distro for WSL, this appears to be due to a bug in WSL 2.7.8.0. Affecting KVM & AMD CPU devices.  WSL 2.7.9 should be available shortly to mitigate this issue.

Errors seen:

  • Error code: Wsl/InstallDistro/Service/RegisterDistro/CreateVm/0x800705b4
  • Error code: Wsl/InstallDistro/0x80072eff
  • Failure, expected Distro: Ubuntu-24.04. No Distros found.

The same errors will be seen when running 'wsl --install' which defaults to downloading Ubuntu. 

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/40783

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