WSL2

Recently, I started sending/receiving documents to/from untrusted sources. In my threat model, this requires extra operational security to prevent privacy exposure and security risk. Since the offical guide is not so detailed for Windows, I decided to write one while installing on a Windows 11 LTSC. First, in Windows Terminal/PowerShell, run wsl --install to setup WSL2. Read my previous post for more detail. Because the latest verisons of Dangerzone 0.9.1 and docker desktop 4.44.3 have unsolvable bug (reports unknown error '2'), I have to choose the ealier version which works properly. ...

In the past, I have covered how to set up Ubuntu in WSL2 and hosting local LLMs with Harbor, now I want to migrate my Harbor instance from baremetal Linux into WSL2 so that I don’t have to set it up from scratch. First thing to do is to open firewall port netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport=33811 listenaddress=0.0.0.0 connectport=33801 connectaddress=172.xx.xxx.xxx On Linux hardware: copy Harbor files from /home/username/Harbor /home/username/.ollama On Windows hardware: connect the USB drive containing Harbor files and run ...

WSL Installation There are some special use cases where I would like to go through and show the process of setting up WSL. Ubuntu’s official document works well on Windows 11 LTSC for WSL installation, there is also a tutorial from sitepoint with more details. I’m doing this on a double debloated version of Windows 11 from previous post of Tiny 11 WTG, where I downloaded WinGet, extracted DesktopAppInstaller_Dependencies.zip and installed with PowerShell: ...