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by KronisLV 1595 days ago
Huh.

Seems like it's more interesting than that: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/issues/899

> ...for WSL2 you only need "Virtual Machine Platform" (a subset of Hyper-V) and "Windows Subsystem for Linux" features, both available in Home edition.

Also there's this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/faq#will-i-be-a...

> However, recently both VirtualBox and VMware have released versions that support Hyper-V and WSL2. Learn more about VirtualBox's changes here and VMware's changes here. For troubleshooting issues, take a look at the VirtualBox issue discussions in the WSL repo on GitHub.