Document how to configure dstack on WSL

[eafpres]

When trying to configure in a Linux (e.g. Ubuntu) instance in WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux, in particular WSLg) config cannot find the AWS credentials in the windows path

eafpres@LAPTOP-JSLJ8BRD:/mnt/c/eaf llc/aa-analytics and bi/dstack$ dstack config --aws-profile default
? Choose AWS region Use arrows to move, type to filter
✓ US East, N. Virginia [us-east-1]
? Enter S3 bucket name: eaf-test-dstack
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/eafpres/.local/bin/dstack", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/home/eafpres/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dstack/cli/main.py", line 77, in main
    args.func(args)
  File "/home/eafpres/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dstack/cli/config.py", line 105, in config_func
    bucket_name = ask_bucket(profile_name, region_name, default_bucket_name, default_subnet_id)
  File "/home/eafpres/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dstack/cli/config.py", line 150, in ask_bucket
    return ask_bucket_name(profile_name, region_name, default_bucket_name, default_subnet_id)
  File "/home/eafpres/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dstack/cli/config.py", line 161, in ask_bucket_name
    if backend.validate_bucket():
  File "/home/eafpres/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dstack/aws/__init__.py", line 45, in validate_bucket
    return config.validate_bucket(self._s3_client(), self.backend_config.bucket_name,
  File "/home/eafpres/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dstack/aws/config.py", line 34, in validate_bucket
    raise e
  File "/home/eafpres/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dstack/aws/config.py", line 12, in validate_bucket
    response = s3_client.head_bucket(Bucket=bucket_name)
  File "/home/eafpres/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/botocore/client.py", line 508, in _api_call
    return self._make_api_call(operation_name, kwargs)
  File "/home/eafpres/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/botocore/client.py", line 898, in _make_api_call
    http, parsed_response = self._make_request(
  File "/home/eafpres/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/botocore/client.py", line 921, in _make_request
    return self._endpoint.make_request(operation_model, request_dict)
  File "/home/eafpres/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/botocore/endpoint.py", line 119, in make_request
    return self._send_request(request_dict, operation_model)
  File "/home/eafpres/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/botocore/endpoint.py", line 198, in _send_request
    request = self.create_request(request_dict, operation_model)
  File "/home/eafpres/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/botocore/endpoint.py", line 134, in create_request
    self._event_emitter.emit(
  File "/home/eafpres/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/botocore/hooks.py", line 412, in emit
    return self._emitter.emit(aliased_event_name, **kwargs)
  File "/home/eafpres/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/botocore/hooks.py", line 256, in emit
    return self._emit(event_name, kwargs)
  File "/home/eafpres/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/botocore/hooks.py", line 239, in _emit
    response = handler(**kwargs)
  File "/home/eafpres/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/botocore/signers.py", line 103, in handler
    return self.sign(operation_name, request)
  File "/home/eafpres/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/botocore/signers.py", line 187, in sign
    auth.add_auth(request)
  File "/home/eafpres/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/botocore/auth.py", line 407, in add_auth
    raise NoCredentialsError()
botocore.exceptions.NoCredentialsError: Unable to locate credentials

[eafpres]

Perhaps a note can be added to the docs:

This can be accommodated by exporting two env variables:

export AWS_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE=/mnt/c/Users//.aws/credentials export AWS_CONFIG_FILE=/mnt/c/Users//.aws/config

these can be added into the .bashrc
either ~/.bashrc or /etc/bash.bashrc

[peterschmidt85]

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[peterschmidt85]

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