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[REQUEST] open sourcing wsl has a positive effect on wsa?

Open 27hectormanuel opened this issue 7 months ago • 4 comments

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Features like network file storage and more?

27hectormanuel avatar May 20 '25 19:05 27hectormanuel

Describe your request

Features like network file storage and more?

Maybe, I cannot say for sure as I have very little knowledge on this matter.

From what I have found, by tinkering with WSA, is that that it most likely uses a custom implementation of WSL with certain components are custom built for the purposes of Android emulator. Therefore it would be quite an enormous feat for any developers willing to take an attempt at the task.

MustardChef avatar May 20 '25 20:05 MustardChef

I don't know why they didn't open source wsa

27hectormanuel avatar May 20 '25 21:05 27hectormanuel

Describe your request

Features like network file storage and more?

Maybe, I cannot say for sure as I have very little knowledge on this matter.

From what I have found, by tinkering with WSA, is that that it most likely uses a custom implementation of WSL with certain components are custom built for the purposes of Android emulator. Therefore it would be quite an enormous feat for any developers willing to take an attempt at the task.

In many cases, yes, since it seems to have some custom bridges too, but the core itself is just plain old WSL from what I can observe, so that means we can have a baseline implementation with the open source WSL, then we slowly work on the hvsocket-based custom integrations (as WSL2 relies on hvsocket to integrate the guest to the host)

sr229 avatar May 30 '25 01:05 sr229