Windows Subsystem for Linux

Windows Subsystem for Linux

In the Windows search box search for "turn windows features on or off"

scroll down and tick:

• hyper v
• virtual machine platform
• windows subsystem for linux

WSL 2 is only available in Windows 10 builds 18917 or higher

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

install the WSL 2 kernel from this link

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-kernel

You may use your specific subarch: https://www.funtoo.org/Subarches

tarball testing against wsl: https://www.funtoo.org/Generic_64

• use 7zip to convert the tar.xz to tar:

https://www.7-zip.org/download.html

• search for power shell, right click it's icon and select run as administrator:

root # wsl.exe --import "funtoo" "C:\funtoo" "C:\Users\$MYUSER\Downloads\gnome-stage3-amd64-piledriver-1.4-release-std-2020-12-16.tar" --version 2

root # wsl.exe

you are now running funtoo under windows.

root # ego sync
root # echo 'FEATURES="-ipc-sandbox -pid-sandbox -mount-sandbox -network-sandbox"' > /etc/portage/make.conf
root # emerge -avuND @world