alt Hacker NewsWe already could do that with VMWare Workstation and VirtualBox, since at least 2010.
WSL could have been avoided if Microsoft had been more serious about the POSIX subsystem in Windows NT, or later Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications that was available until 2016.
> We already could do that with VMWare Workstation and VirtualBox, since at least 2010.
Yes but MS obviously viewed it as important enough to bring it inside their ecosystem.
As for the POSIX subsystem in NT, MacOS is POSIX compliant but Apple provide virtualization APIs to run Linux.