Topic

wsl

A collection of 3 issues

U2F/Fido2 based SSH keys on Windows

When trying to figure out why ssh-agent forwarding wasn't working from Windows to an Ubuntu 22 server, I saw that build V8.9.0.0p1-Beta of Microsoft's OpenSSH port included U2F/Fido2 hardware authenticators. Installing There's a few ways to install this, I'

Mounting a dedicated disk in WSL2

In WSL2, the default disks are virtual. Microsoft has recently added support for mapping physical disks to your WSL2 VM. I was running low on space my C: drive, so I wanted to move some of my WSL2 data to a dedicated Linux drive.

Replacing the WSL Kernel

Backstory I had a dual boot Windows/Fedora machine, and I wanted to be able to run the Fedora install as a VM inside WSL. To do this, I needed the physical disk accessible from the WSL kernel. Since the WSL kernel has no access to physical hardware like that,