The goal of this project was to create a script which makes it ease to quickly create a new, seperate WSL instance. You can use this script to quickly create a WSL instance which can be used e.g. for a specific project with its special dependencies. Afterwards you can delete the instance and keep a (relatively) clean operating system.

• Quickly create a new WSL instance from a .tar image
• Quickly remove/unregister existing WSL instances

• Download/Install WSL according to this page: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10
• Download the current script from this repository

wsl --export <NAME> <path-for-the-new-image>.tar

• Visit https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-manual
• Download the .appx file for your desired distro
• Change the file extension from .appx to .zip
• Locate the install.tar.gz file
• Extract install.tar.gz (you should get an install.tar file)
• Copy (and if you want rename) install.tar to your desired location

Use the process described here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/use-custom-distro

Create a folder in which you want to install the WSL instance

Start the powershell script and follow the included instructions NOTE: Your image has to be compatible with the selected WSL version

Start the powershell script and follow the included instructions

See LICENSE. I am not affiliated with Microsoft. This project merely exists to facilitate the creation (and deletion) of WSL instances to make development much easier and faster.