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Kernel Additional Package Installation

NOTICE

• This guide must be proceed in your WSL2 system.
• Kernel additional package is optional. If you don't need it, just skip this guide.
• Additional package contains kernel modules, headers and documents.
• If you try to use VHDX image, you must use WSL version 2.5.1 or later.

1. Install Additional Package in WSL2 Directly

# Please change latest version of kernel and select your architecture
wget https://github.com/Nevuly/WSL2-Linux-Kernel-Rolling-LTS/releases/download/linux-wsl-lts-**x.x.x**/bzImage-**arch**-addon_install.tar.gz

tar -xzvf bzImage-**arch**-addon_install.tar.gz

cd bzImage-**arch**-addon_install

sudo ./addon-install.sh

After execute installation script, please reboot your WSL2 system to load kernel modules correctly.

2. Install Additional Package using VHDX Image

1. Download kernel additional package VHDX image from releases page.
2. Place it to somewhere appropriate. (e.g. D:\WSL2\Kernel\bzImage-x86_64-addon.vhdx)
3. Save the .wslconfig in current user's home directory with following content:

[wsl2]
kernelModules=the\\path\\to\\bzImage-addon.vhdx
; e.g.
; kernelModules=D:\\WSL2\\Kernel\\bzImage-x86_64-addon.vhdx
;
; Note that all `\` should be escaped with `\\`.