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- Are there any plans to be able to easily open networks ports from WSL accessible from the external network ?
- Heather_Poulsen
Community Manager
Great questions so far - keep them coming! We're answering live on air, but we'll follow up with answers in the chat after the event and post an event recap in the Windows AMA space within 48 hours.
- Q: Are there plans to improve the performance on Arm64 devices? Once the # of processes jumps up and memory allocation are high, it starts jittering. Also affects WSA and even WSLg at times.
- I\'ve enabled systemd in WSL 2 but starting it through the Windows task scheduler makes weston crash constantly creating excess CPU load. Any ideas on how to fix that?
- Can you share any plans for WSL to further enterprise controls that allow the WSL instance to be in more compliance, similar to the Windows host the WSL instance is is hosted on? \n
- Tamir Levy
Microsoft
Yes! Behind the scenes, WSL has the same security story of a VM. Of course, every rule you apply to your users with VMs will apply to VM as well. Windows host can't see what's running on WSL. for example, Defender on Windows cannot read WSL process. There are some improvements we're working on to give a more granular controls for enterprises.
- Basically our devs/admins love WSL, but out InfoSec team doesn\'t because the same windows security controls don\'t reach deep enough inside the WSL instance to enforce their policies.
- I work on a vpn and often find I cannot access the internet due to not being able to connect to the internet whilst on the VPN, I have modern software and wondered if WSL could be more vpn friendly.
- Tamir Levy
The best thing you should check is use the latest version of the VPN client. Different VPN vendors add better integration for WSL on their ongoing updates (Cisco is a good example)
- Will reasonably fast access to Windows native filesystems with full inotify support from WSL2 be addressed anytime soon? One of best features of WSL is interoperability and sharing data between Linux and Windows apps. Slow 9p and workaround with wsl pseudo networked fs do not always work.
- What is the outlook for IPv6 in WSL2? Is there a roadmap that will allow for seamless IPv6, or are we stuck in WSL1 for the foreseeable future?
- Is WSL Preview from MS Store stable for general use? Will the updates of this Preview version be backported in the non-store installation? When?
- Tamir Levy
WSL on Store on Windows 11 is in GA and ready for production use. We're working on backporting some if its features to the non-store version, though there's a lot of work to be done to support it so nothing official to share yet
- Will WSL ever support systemd?\n\nI primarily use WSL to test software as I develop it. I\'m sad that I can\'t easily test my systemd services on WSL.
- Tamir LevySystemd has some unique challenges and that\'s why it\'s not there yet. but there\'s some work being done to support it. stay tuned!
