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#12 WSL Images - Do the new way
Closed by tdawson. Opened by tdawson.

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The newest version of WSL allows for a new format and the possibility to get our images in WSL images.

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- Issue tagged with: Feature Request

Fedora has a change proposal for this. We can follow their steps.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FedoraWSL

Here are a few important links from that document.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/build-custom-distro#add-the-wsl-distribution-configuration-file
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/build-custom-distro#adding-your-distribution-to-wsl---install-for-all-wsl-users
https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/

Here is Fedora's WSL request, it has some good info in it.
https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/pull/12710

This was completed in the July 2025 release.
There is a nice demo of it in the CentOS Showcase.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozg-VPVoB_4

Metadata Update from @tdawson:
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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