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How to use the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) for development

We are aware of two issues with running our toolbox on Windows:

  • Conda and miniconda can be rather temperamental: Environment creation can fail with package conflict errors of unclear origin, or internal conda errors.
  • Some features of PyTorch are not supported, or not well supported, on Windows.

If you are facing issue of the above kind on a Windows machine, we would highly recommend working with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) or a plain Ubuntu Linux box.

Enable CUDA in WSL2

If you are running a Windows box with a GPU, please follow the documentation here to access the GPU from within WSL2.

You can also find a video walkthrough of WSL2+CUDA installation here: https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Tabs-vs-Spaces/GPU-Accelerated-Machine-Learning-with-WSL-2

Install WSL2

Requirements: Windows 10 version 2004 or higher

The instructions are here, but summarized in copy/paste-able form below. When installing via the UI, pick Ubuntu version 20.04 LTS as your distribution.

To use the commandline setup, please first install winget via the appxbundle.

Then, in PowerShell as Administrator:

dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart
dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestart

Restart your machine, then again in PowerShell:

wsl --set-default-version 2
winget install ubuntu --version 20.04
wsl --list --verbose
wsl --set-version Ubuntu-20.04 2
wsl --set-default-version 2
winget install Microsoft.WindowsTerminal

Remember to restart your machine if you were doing a fresh installation of WSL 2 before trying further steps.

Since it is possible to choose the version of WSL that a particular distribution is running, once you have WSL2 installed, ensure that your distribution is running on top of WSL2 by executing
wsl --list --verbose
If all is good, the output should look like this:

$> wsl --list -v
  NAME            STATE           VERSION
* Ubuntu-20.04    Running         2

Note the "2" in Version column.

Install git and Anaconda

Start the Windows Terminal app, create an Ubuntu tab. In the shell, run the following commands:

  • sudo apt update
  • sudo apt install git git-lfs python-dev build-essential
  • wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
  • sh Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
  • Close your WSL shell and re-start it
  • Clone repo or access your repos via /mnt/c/...
  • Create conda environment: conda env create --file environment.yml
  • Clean your pyc files (in case you have some left from Windows):
find * -name '*.pyc' | xargs -d'\n' rm`

Configure PyCharm

Remove-NetFirewallRule
$myIp = (Ubuntu1804 run "cat /etc/resolv.conf | grep nameserver | cut -d' ' -f2")
New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "WSL" -Direction Inbound  -LocalAddress $myIp -Action Allow
  • Then (re)start PyCharm. If asked whether to give it permission to communicate over domain, private and public networks, make sure all three are ticked.

Configure VSCode