Skip to content

--mount option available on Win10 (non-Insider) #7940

Description

@Hashbrown777

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I need a way to mount physical disks to the WSL linux environment.

Describe the solution you'd like
The Microsoft Store release to be Win10 minimum with GUI features disabled if that makes it easier.

Describe alternatives you've considered
I've been on Insider basically since --mount released on those rings, but I experience many issues and I'm on it solely for this feature.
WSLg moved out of insider to full release, but only for Windows 11, & I cannot move to Win11 due to corporate.
The same version appeared as a preview on the MS Store; but it's also been locked to Win11.

Additional context
I understand there are issues with getting the graphical portions of the newer version of WSL backported into Win10; but --mount works fine in Win10. The GUI stuff should be decoupled from WSL2 "core".
Craig unveiled the MS Store release of WSL saying, "This decouples WSL from your Windows version, allowing you to update through the Microsoft Store instead."
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/a-preview-of-wsl-in-the-microsoft-store-is-now-available/
But this doesn't seem to be the case.
image

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    Type

    No type

    Fields

    No fields configured for issues without a type.

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions