nix-community / NixOS-WSL

NixOS on WSL(2) [maintainer=@nzbr]

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nix nixos nixos-wsl wsl wsl-distro wsl-environment wsl2

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NixOS-WSL

Modules for running NixOS on the Windows Subsystem for Linux

Documentation is available here

Quick Start

Enable WSL if you haven't done already:

```
wsl --install --no-distribution
```

Download nixos-wsl.tar.gz from the latest release.
Import the tarball into WSL:

wsl --import NixOS $env:USERPROFILE\NixOS\ nixos-wsl.tar.gz --version 2

You can now run NixOS:

```
wsl -d NixOS
```

For more detailed instructions, refer to the documentation.

License

Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html for details.