scaryrawr / fedora-wsl

A set of scripts to help setup WSL

Fedora Importer

This helps set up Fedora on WSL, works on WSL 2. Based on this article.

Works with x64 and ARM64 Windows

Please make sure to read all scripts and use at your own risk.

Things that this script does:

• Download the Fedora Docker Image and import it into WSL
• Setups systemd support
  • For older versions of WSL2 this involves building and installing https://github.com/ubuntu/wsl-setup
  • For newer versions it uses WSL2's built systemd support flag
• Configures RPM Fusion free and non-free
• Enables a custom copr for MESA D3D12 support scaryrawr/mesa-d3d12 and installs mesa drivers
• Does some configuration and package installs to get similar behavior to a normal-ish Fedora install

Requirements

• 7zip - Please add it to your PATH environment variable.

Installing

Once your path is correctly setup, you can do something like:

.\setup.ps1 -Version 37 -UserName scaryrawr -DistroName Fed

Will install Fedora 37 and with the user scaryrawr. Password prompt will happen during the install process.

• The virtual hard disk will exist at: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Fed\ext4.vhdx

• Running wsl -l should output something like:

  Windows Subsystem for Linux Distributions:
  Fed (Default)

Default Setup

.\setup.ps1

Specifying Fedora Version

.\setup.ps1 -Version 37

Passing new User Name as parameter

.\setup.ps1 -UserName userName

Setting a custom Distro Name for WSL

.\setup.ps1 -DistroName CustomName

Setting a custom install directory

Default installation directory is %LOCALAPPDATA%\Fedora. You may want to specify a custom install location if you have a separate drive/partition.

# Will cause it to be installed at V:\Custom\Path\Fedora
.\setup.ps1 -InstallDirectory V:\Custom\Path