Docker Desktop WSL 2 backend | docker install
WindowsSubsystemforLinux(WSL)2isafullLinuxkernelbuiltbyMicrosoft,whichallowsLinuxdistributionstorunwithoutmanagingvirtualmachines.WithDockerDesktoprunningonWSL2,userscanleverageLinuxworkspacesandavoidmaintainingbothLinuxandWindowsbuildscripts.Inaddition,WSL2providesimprovementstofilesystemsharingandboottime.DockerDesktopusesthedynamicmemoryallocationfeatureinWSL2toimprovetheresourceconsumption.Thismeans,DockerDesktoponlyusestherequiredamountofCPUandmemoryresourcesitneeds,whileenablingCPUandm...
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2 is a full Linux kernel built by Microsoft, which allows Linux distributions to run without managing virtual machines. With Docker Desktop running on WSL 2, users can leverage Linux workspaces and avoid maintaining both Linux and Windows build scripts. In addition, WSL 2 provides improvements to file system sharing and boot time.
Docker Desktop uses the dynamic memory allocation feature in WSL 2 to improve the resource consumption. This means, Docker Desktop only uses the required amount of CPU and memory resources it needs, while enabling CPU and memory-intensive tasks such as building a container, to run much faster.
Additionally, with WSL 2, the time required to start a Docker daemon after a cold start is significantly faster. It takes less than 10 seconds to start the Docker daemon compared to almost a minute in the previous version of Docker Desktop.
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