How to setup WSL2 on Windows 10

Before Start

• Make sure you have hardware virtualization enabled on your computer.
• Check if you are running the latest version of Windows 10. Version 1903 with build 18362 or higher is required.

Enabling and configuring WSL2

Open the Windows PowerShell as Administrator (right-click and select Run as Administrator) and paste following commands to enable the WSL2 and the Virtual Machine Platform component.

dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestart
dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart

After executing the commands above restart your computer, then download and install the WSL2 Linux kernel update package for x64 machines.