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VSCode Remote: Connect to WSL2 from another machine

Do you want to do remote development on your WSL2 container in Visual Studio Code? Read this.

Proxy jump method

1. On the host set up OpenSSH for Windows
2. Run wsl --update to make sure you are running the latest WSL
3. Open WSL and install another SSH server inside WSL with sudo apt-get install openssh-server
4. Now run sudo systemctl enable --now ssh to automatically start ssh when WSL starts.

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WSL2 with GUI using Xvnc

Note

If you want to use pure WSLg, you can try the new WSLg tutorial.

In this tutorial, we will setup GUI in WSL2, and access it using VNC. No additional software outside WSL (like VcXsrv) is required, except, of course, a VNC Viewer (RealVNC, TightVNC, TigerVNC, UVNC, etc, all of them might work flawlessly).

The key component we need to install is the desktop metapackage you want (GNOME, KDE, Xfce, Budgie, etc) and tigervnc-standalone-server.

For this setup, I will use Ubuntu (20.04, 22.04 and 24.04 are working), and install GNOME Desktop. Since the key components aren't bound to Ubuntu or GNOME, you can use your favorite distro and GUI. Check the Sample screenshots section for examples.

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{
    "workbench.iconTheme": "material-icon-theme",
    "editor.showDeprecated": false,
    "explorer.compactFolders": false,
    "workbench.startupEditor": "none",
    "explorer.copyRelativePathSeparator": "/",
    "editor.unicodeHighlight.allowedLocales": {
        "ru": true
    },
    "git.openRepositoryInParentFolders": "always",

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Setting up a Docker container as a DHCP server

In this guide I’ve tested a number of different commands and configurations using Docker to run a container with dhcpd (+macvlan driver) to serve my clients in my home network. In the end i’ll migrate from my Windows 2012 R2 Server running DHCP to a much more lightweight Docker container (7.42 MB in total). Wow.

My home environment:

• Firewall (Juniper)
  • I’m running IP helper for bootp which in this case means that i relay DHCP requests from various VLANs into one where i've placed my Windows 2012 R2 server. This is also where my container will live. See the FW configuration below:

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cat <<EOF > user-data
#cloud-config
debug: True
disable_root: False
ssh_deletekeys: False
ssh_pwauth: True
ssh_authorized_keys:
  - ssh-rsa XXX
  
# users:

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# https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=aaron-bond.better-comments
code --install-extension aaron-bond.better-comments

# https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=alefragnani.project-manager
code --install-extension alefragnani.project-manager

# https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bmewburn.vscode-intelephense-client
code --install-extension bmewburn.vscode-intelephense-client

# https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=christian-kohler.npm-intellisense

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Please see the most up-to-date version of this protocol on my blog at https://darencard.net/blog/.

Automatically push an updated file whenever it is changed

Linux

1. Make sure inotify-tools is installed (https://github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools)
2. Configure git as usual
3. Clone the git repository of interest from github and, if necessary, add file you want to monitor
4. Allow username/password to be cached so you aren't asked everytime

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How-to setup a simple git push deployment

These are my notes basically. At first i created this gist just as a reminder for myself. But feel free to use this for your project as a starting point. If you have questions you can find me on twitter @thomasf https://twitter.com/thomasf This is how i used it on a Debian Wheezy testing (https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/)

Discuss, ask questions, etc. here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7445545

On the server (example.com)

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Error:
dpkg: error processing package mysql-server (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. 
Errors we re encountered while processing: mysql-server-8.0 mysql-server E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code 

Step to encount the error:

1. sudo apt-get clean 
2. sudo apt-get purge mysql* 
3. sudo apt-get updateYou10:58
4. sudo apt-get purge mysql* 

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{
  "api-cors-header": "",
  "authorization-plugins": [],
  "bip": "",
  "bridge": "",
  "cgroup-parent": "",
  "cluster-store": "",
  "cluster-store-opts": {},
  "cluster-advertise": "",
  "debug": true,