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Subject: Re: Windows support for linux sounds like it would open the door to
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To: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
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From: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>
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On 09/05/2019 21:07, Alan Somers wrote:
> On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 7:12 PM Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Just a though here ... Microsoft seems to be abandoning the linuxulator
>> approach for their "WSL" support on Windows 10 in favor of a more
>> hypervisor-like support:
>>
>> https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/
>>
>> If I read this correctly, it may be possible for us to run a FreeBSD
>> kernel, perhaps it would be comparable as porting FreeBSD to yet another
>> hypervisor. Just speculation since no code has been released yet, but
>> surely something to keep an eye on.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Pedro.
> Interesting.  It sounds like the Linux VM will have direct access to
> the host file system.  Perhaps using something like 9P ?

Yes, exactly 9P ! This has been confirmed now by Microsoft (courtesy of 
Phoronix):

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=WSL2-Build-Conf-Video

Cheers,

Pedro.