NOTE: If you have Windows 11 there is now an official way to do this in WSL 2, use it if possible - see MS post here (WINDOWS 11 ONLY)
This guide will enable systemd
to run as normal under WSL 2. This will enable services like microk8s
, docker
and many more to just work
during a WSL session. Note: this was tested on Windows 10 Build 2004, running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS in WSL 2.
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To enable
systemd
under WSL we require a tool calledsystemd-genie
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Copy the contents of
install-sg.sh
to a new file/tmp/install-sg.sh
:cd /tmp wget --content-disposition \ "https://gist.githubusercontent.com/djfdyuruiry/6720faa3f9fc59bfdf6284ee1f41f950/raw/952347f805045ba0e6ef7868b18f4a9a8dd2e47a/install-sg.sh"
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Make it executable:
chmod +x /tmp/install-sg.sh
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Run the new script:
/tmp/install-sg.sh && rm /tmp/install-sg.sh
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Exit the WSL terminal and shutdown the WSL env:
wsl --shutdown
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To open a new WSL terminal with
systemd
enabled, run:wsl genie -s
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Prove that it works:
sudo systemctl status time-sync.target
It works, thanks. However, I'm running kali-linux rolling on wsl2, and once you have systemd using this method, running win-kex for desktop experience doesn't allow for audio support. All attempts to restart pulseaudio service return a "failed to connect to bus error", I tried
export &(dbus-launch)
and that led to another chain of erros. Does anyone know how to get pulseaudio back up again?