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systemd support for WSL distros
Preparations
To get started, you will need to run WSL version Version 0.67.6 or above. The WSL pre-release can be downloaded and installed from the GitHub repository as an installable bundle.
With the command wsl --list in the Windows Terminal, an overview of the available Linux distributions can be displayed.
With wsl --update, the distributions can be brought to the latest available version.
In order to use systemd within a WSL distribution, the file wsl.conf must be adjusted within the /etc/ folder inside the distribution: