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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/releases/download/linux-wsl-stable-**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][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 `\\`.