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sshnuke
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Apr 14, 2021

How to enable wsl 2 on windows server 2022 ver 20329?

I installed wsl and enabled hyper-v features on my 20329 server, but I could not tansfer my wsl to wsl 2 Is it supported yet?  
Windows Server 2022
wsl 2
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Elden_Christensen
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May 25, 2022

Some exciting news to share, in direct response to your feedback we have just added WSL2 to Windows Server 2022!! WSL2 will be broadly available in the June cumulative update, for those looking to get it sooner it is available today by installing the 5C update here: https://support.microsoft.com/help/5014021

THANK YOU for your feedback in helping us make Windows Server better!

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    zaza26
    Copper Contributor
    Mar 23, 2023

    I have Window 2022 Server Build 2-348.1607 which I belive is more recent to 20348.740. Yet I am not able to upgrade to WSL2. The installation by default is ver 1.0. I tried the following to upgrade to wsl2.0

     

    PS C:\Users\erisuser> wsl --set-version Ubuntu 2

     

    Conversion in progress, this may take a few minutes... For information on key differences with WSL 2 please visit https://aka.ms/wsl2 WSL 2 requires an update to its kernel component. For information please visit https://aka.ms/wsl2kernel

     

    I tried their wsl_update_x64.msi from that url but it does not run on windows 2022 server.

    Any help on procedure would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks,

     

     

     

    LainRobertson

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