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Ubuntu test machine setup guide

Walks you through:

Creating an ubuntu VM in azure
Installing a GUI and reconnecting via RDP
Installing sys reqs for Docker Desktop
Installing Docker Desktop

Install Multiple Instances of WSL2 Linux on Windows 11

Here's an easy method which allows you to install multiple instances of any Linux Distro in any location under WSL2.

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Preparation

If you HAVEN'T installed WSL2 prior to this, open up a Powershell terminal and execute the following commands:

Setup Docker to run on Windows 11 & Ubuntu WSL2 AND still be able to use Docker Desktop to monitor the lot!!

The goal here is to set up a container cluster using WSL2, Ubuntu Linux, and other Open Source packages. The secondary goal being to be able to use it from both Linux and Windows AND to be able to still use Docker Desktop under either Windows or Linux to manage things.

To do so, we need to setup WSL2, Ubuntu, dockerd and containterd, then build docker-cli for Windows and finally wire them all together so they can talk to each other.

Prerequisites

First you need to set up Windows so that you can use virtualised containers, as well as WSL2. Type the following in a terminal:

For Windows

TBC

For Linux/WSL

Install Android Studio

// Windows install
https://developer.android.com/studio/install -> Windows
// Linux CLI
https://developer.android.com/studio/install -> Linux

	# https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/install-docker-in-wsl-2-without-docker-desktop

	# Install Docker, you can ignore the warning from Docker about using WSL
	curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
	sudo sh get-docker.sh

	# Add your user to the Docker group
	sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

	# Install Docker Compose v2

	#
	# Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT.
	# Linux/arm64 5.15.90.1 Kernel Configuration
	#
	CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT="gcc (GCC) 12.2.1 20221121 (Red Hat 12.2.1-4)"
	CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC=y
	CONFIG_GCC_VERSION=120201
	CONFIG_CLANG_VERSION=0
	CONFIG_AS_IS_GNU=y
	CONFIG_AS_VERSION=23800

	# start docker - this is a helper script created to start docker as wsl2 doesn't use systemd
	docker-start

	ping github.com
	# why a ping here? emperiically I've determined this has to occur
	# otherwise for me the docker daemon messes up dns.
	# don't know why, ymmv

	wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ArturKlauser/0f0293c62f5626df0261ac994d8a46af/raw/d5863dfc22e6d65fd912c9ec760dcdc86ea320cc/check-qemu-binfmt.sh
	chmod +x check-qemu-binfmt.sh

	cp Microsoft/config-wsl .config
	sed -i 's/# CONFIG_KVM_GUEST is not set/CONFIG_KVM_GUEST=y/g' .config
	sed -i 's/# CONFIG_ARCH_CPUIDLE_HALTPOLL is not set/CONFIG_ARCH_CPUIDLE_HALTPOLL=y/g' .config
	sed -i 's/# CONFIG_HYPERV_IOMMU is not set/CONFIG_HYPERV_IOMMU=y/g' .config
	sed -i '/^# CONFIG_PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING is not set/a CONFIG_PARAVIRT_CLOCK=y' .config
	sed -i '/^# CONFIG_CPU_IDLE_GOV_TEO is not set/a CONFIG_CPU_IDLE_GOV_HALTPOLL=y' .config
	sed -i '/^CONFIG_CPU_IDLE_GOV_HALTPOLL=y/a CONFIG_HALTPOLL_CPUIDLE=y' .config
	sed -i 's/CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_KCSAN=y/CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_KCSAN=n/g' .config
	sed -i '/^CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_KCSAN=n/a CONFIG_KCSAN=n' .config
	make -j 8

	#
	# Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT.
	# Linux 5.x Kernel Configuration
	#
	CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT="aarch64-msft-linux-gcc (GCC) 9.3.0"
	CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC=y
	CONFIG_GCC_VERSION=90300
	CONFIG_LD_VERSION=234000000
	CONFIG_CLANG_VERSION=0
	CONFIG_LLD_VERSION=0

	# Inside WSL...

	# Install virt-manager
	sudo apt install -y virt-manager

	# Add youself to kvm and libvirt group
	sudo usermod --append --groups kvm,libvirt "${USER}"

	# Fix-up permission to avoid "Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied" error
	sudo chown root:kvm /dev/kvm