Windows support for linux sounds like it would open the door to FreeBSD

[Alan Somers]

On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 7:12 PM Pedro Giffuni <pfg at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> Just a though here ... Microsoft seems to be abandoning the linuxulator
> approach for their "WSL" support on Windows 10 in favor of a more
> hypervisor-like support:
>
> https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/
>
> If I read this correctly, it may be possible for us to run a FreeBSD
> kernel, perhaps it would be comparable as porting FreeBSD to yet another
> hypervisor. Just speculation since no code has been released yet, but
> surely something to keep an eye on.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pedro.

Interesting.  It sounds like the Linux VM will have direct access to
the host file system.  Perhaps using something like 9P ?