microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel

Features

• Hypervisors - Runs a full Linux kernel within a lightweight utility virtual machine managed by a Windows host hypervisor.
• Monolithic Kernels - Utilizes a monolithic kernel architecture integrating all core services and device drivers into a single supervisor-mode binary.
• Hardware Abstraction Layers - Provides a hardware abstraction layer that translates generic kernel requests into calls executable by the host hypervisor.
• Operating System Kernels - Provides a compatible operating system kernel to create an environment for executing Linux binary files and applications.
• Windows Linux Integration - Integrates a full Linux environment on Windows to execute binary files and applications with native kernel support.
• Kernel Customization - Allows modifying and compiling the Linux kernel to add specific features or drivers for use within the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
• Virtual Disk Overlays - Maps virtual hard disk files as the root filesystem to persist kernel changes and user data.
• Kernel Configuration Systems - Provides a configurable Kconfig system to select specific drivers and features before compiling the kernel into a bootable image.
• Custom Kernel Compilation - Supports building a Linux kernel from source to tailor system behavior and hardware compatibility for virtualized environments.
• Custom Kernel Compilation - Enables compiling a kernel from source with specific configuration changes and packaging modules into a virtual disk image.
• Pluggable Module Loading - Implements mechanisms to dynamically load compiled driver binaries into the running kernel at runtime.
• Development Utilities - Source code for the Linux kernel used in the subsystem.

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