Can not run nmap from WSL due to inability to interface with network sockets. Please enable passthrough or provide documentation / support to allow configuration of ethernet sockets to work with nmap. Was lead here by this discussion: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/2039

Since previous one(https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windo/suggestions/16759696-add-usb-device-support) was marked "complete", this one more clearly states support for libusb as in any usb device raw, rather than just storage mounting and serial pass-through.
My example need is Yubikey gpg-card.

It would be great to be able to run the Docker daemon (dockerd) natively in WSL.

Thanks for already adding support for running the Docker client in WSL.

Backup / Restore / Snapshot a WSL installation.

For development puproses it would be very nice to ba able to backup a WSL installtion and to resore it on the same or another(!) PC.

Provide a means of 'going back' (like a VMware snapshot) when a WSL installation became unstable, bloated, corrupt.

BTW is there a way to have more than one Ubuntu installations at the same time?

Best regards.

Originally posted on Github around a year ago: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/767

Not sure how feasible this is to implement, but I've found myself in a couple of situations where it would've come in quite useful.

A lot of tools written for Linux can be downloaded as 64-bit, but there are still a few that only 32-bit downloads are available for. I've tried using virtual machines, but that tends to not be feasibly in some projects.

Both Oracle Berkeley DB and lmdb fail on WSL as of build 18204. This is due to an issue with mmap described at https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/658 and https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/902

Please fix the mmap issue so that lmdb and Oracle Berkeley DB, and projects relying on them, work in WSL.

From https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/1628

It would be great to get support for AF_PACKET, as some networking tools or software rely on that.

Samples of tool that won't work without it:
- tcpdump (socket: Invalid argument)
- wireshark
- some nmap functions
- Scapy

You lured people into WSL thinking the devs are not needing the full kernel.

But many people asked for the full linux kernel features.

Until you make it full kernel abi and api compatible, please drop the name Linux from WSL!!! 😡😡😡

https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-windows-subsystem-for-l/suggestions/35413555-support-for-sparse-files-in-lxfs-flow-type-checke

https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-windows-subsystem-for-l/suggestions/13564380-do-nothing-except-implement-the-kernel-correctly

https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-windows-subsystem-for-l/suggestions/13396686-access-to-real-linux-devices-in-dev

https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windo/suggestions/16759696-add-usb-device-support

https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-windows-subsystem-for-l/suggestions/13818042-support-mounting-xfs-ext2-ext3-ext4-etc-partition

https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-windows-subsystem-for-l/suggestions/18870247-enable-kernel-header-support-as-well-as-linux-too

https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-windows-subsystem-for-l/suggestions/31120939-support-kernel-namespaces-and-cgroups-for-docker

https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-windows-subsystem-for-l/suggestions/17268746-add-support-for-kernel-modules

https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-windows-subsystem-for-l/suggestions/35094271-kernel-thread-creation-is-not-working-in-wsl

https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-windows-subsystem-for-l/suggestions/13540620-shared-memory-needs-to-work-like-it-does-on-linux

https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-windows-subsystem-for-l/suggestions/20158108-support-for-bonding-kernel-driver

https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-windows-subsystem-for-l/suggestions/14731734-debug-symbol-for-wsl-kernel

https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-windows-subsystem-for-l/suggestions/32922883-please-add-criu-support

https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-windows-subsystem-for-l/suggestions/18019267-add-snappy-package-system-support

https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-windows-subsystem-for-l/suggestions/14378172-add-support-for-logical-volume-management-abstra

https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-windows-subsystem-for-l/suggestions/17105311-install-pref-in-ubuntu-bash-in-windows-linux-tool

https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-windows-subsystem-for-l/suggestions/18019348-lxc-cgroups-support

There are many development tools unable to be ported to Windows due to their proprietary nature and others that though not proprietary have no interest in porting to Windows. For me specifically, it's being able to utilize dev tools such as VSCode, Sublime Text, Draft, Javalin, Bootsnap, OSQuery, and/or FSQL without downloading a third party X server that only does partial implementation. Libgl is specifically required to get GUI apps to run and doesn't currently exist. Please implement libgl and create an API for driver makers to use to enable use of these and other GUI dev tools.

I am stuck using a MAC at work because the terminal is far superior. with Linux/MAC I can open multiple tabs in the terminal, with windows WSL I have to open a bunch of windows. Sometimes I will has 7 or 8 tabs open at once... Adding tabs to the command terminal would be an excellent upgrade. I work with a bunch of DevOps and TechOps people and the vast majority would rather be using windows, but because of the lack of features with the command box they are stuck using MAC's

"Docker for Windows" would greatly benefit from using WSL instead of their ever failing MobyLinuxVM.

https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues/267#issuecomment-449234581-permalink

Perhaps you may assist the "Docker for Windows" team in migrating away from their malfunctioning Linux VM towards utilizing WSL.

It would be nice to have (relatively) easy access to the dedicated GPU's on our Win10 PC's, and OpenCL support for the AMD Drivers & CUDA for NVidia drivers etc.

What I am thinking on specifically (although there are many many uses for it and CUDA support) is hashing functions that are lackluster within windows itself, but benefit immensely within Linux and Unix.

Cryptocurrency mining for example, is known to be much faster on Linux systems than Windows. Do you see any support for OpenCL and/or CUDA in the future?

Hello,
I want to use process my webcam stream via OpenCV. Apparently there is no support for webcams yet, as /dev/ is pretty empty.

´--- Opening /dev/video0...
stat: No such file or directory
´

Exposing bluetooth to the WSL is necessary to develop IoT without having ot fire up a Viertual Machine.

I would love a right-click option in a folder to open the current folder in a WSL distro. right click to open in the folder C:\Users\account would open a terminal in /mnt/C/Users/account

This issue says it better than I can:

https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/1732

Real Linux:

$ truncate -s 27927781376 foo
$ ls -l foo
-rw-r--r-- 1 ken ken 27927781376 Feb 27 21:00 foo
$ du --block-size=1 foo
0 foo

WSL 15042:

$ truncate -s 27927781376 foo
$ ls -l foo
-rw-r--r-- 1 ken ken 27927781376 Feb 27 21:00 foo
$ du --block-size=1 foo
27927781376 foo

Currently wslpath rejects path inside VolFs.

Can we get folder recursive case sensitivity? You've very recently added it with:
fsutil.exe file SetCaseSensitiveInfo C:\folder\path enable
what do we have to do to get full directory case sensitivity?

It's really confusing as to why this isn't implemented yet when NTFS has supported it forever and windows 10 has no more kernel excuse...

Is something like this necessary?

[string] $PathRoot = 'folder here'

[bool] $EnableCaseSensitivity = $true

@(Get-ChildItem -Path $PathRoot -Recurse -Directory | Select-Object -ExpandProperty 'FullName') | ForEach-Object {
cmd /c ('fsutil.exe file SetCaseSensitiveInfo "{0}" {1}' -f ($_,$(if($EnableCaseSensitivity){'enable'}else{'disable'})))
}