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Kari Ikonen

Performance of vmware and virtualbox with WSL2 enabled (aka. hyper-v) is just too poor. Running linux in virtualbox with VB 6.1.18 is slow, it's not unsably slow, thus someone can claim that "it works!", however, it's slower than without WSL2, slowing it down into uncomfortable level.

VMWare, well, commercial solution has also problems, with their latest version, which is claimed to be "hyper-v & WSL2" compatible: communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-W...
Tried it also myself, and running windows 10 in vmware with WSL2 enabled, is too slow (with virtualbox comically slow, that's reason for trying out vmware); with either case, not usable (i.e. comparable to sticking needles under the fingernails).

Yes. reason for experimenting with wsl2 was attempt of trying to run docker in windows (and so far it seems that I've to abandon it due to these performance problems caused by hyper-v in vmware & virtualbox).

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Erebos Manannán

I also tried Docker in Windows like that, and ended up with worse Docker performance than by running Docker in VMWare. So there's that too.