On Thu, 9 May 2019 22:15:20 -0400 Bill Bogstad <[email protected]> wrote:
> This 60 minute video from Microsoft answers a number of my questions: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwhMThePdIo Will watch this later, but for now... > Yes. Using an optimized Hyper-V system developed for servers. Pretty much what I figured. I want to see if they say anything about the host OS being virtualized as with current Hyper-V. > Both Windows and Linux will support the Plan 9 file server protocol as > both a server and as a client. This gives full filesystem visibility > from both sides. For example, their init automounts /mnt/c via this > mechanism. Very interesting. Plan 9 makes a lot of sense with how it abstracts resources for distributed computing. Which, as a practical matter, WSL is despite being on a single machine. Two-way launching and editing probably are more beneficiaries of this abstraction. > They are still using their own init and nothing was said about doing > anything else. > They mentioned that the way they are running multiple simultaneous > distributions is by using Linux's privileged container system with a > single instance of the Linux kernel > supporting all of them which probably requires the special init they > provide. As they are privileged containers, they said that you could Also being able to convert a distro between WSL 1 and 2. WSL 1 requires their custom init system and converting init systems can be fiendishly difficult so having one init system shared by all distributions in both environments makes a lot of sense given that capability. -- Rich Pieri _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
