LxRunOffline

A full-featured utility for managing Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

Donation

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Note: It's extremely difficult to withdraw from PayPal balance for a Chinese citizen like me, so if you want to donate 100$ or more, please either use Alipay or contact me via email for other donation options.

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Features

• Install any Linux distro to any directory on your computer.
• Move an existing installation to another directory.
• Duplicate(copy) an existing installation.
• Register an existing installation directory. This enables you to install to a USB stick and use it on different computers.
• Run arbitrary Linux commands in a specified installation.
• Configure default user, environment variables and various flags.
• Export configuration to an XML file and import from the file.
• Export an installation to a tar file.

Install

You can install via Chocolatey choco install lxrunoffline, Scoop scoop bucket add extras, scoop install lxrunoffline, or download the binaries directly:

• Latest releases: https://github.com/DDoSolitary/LxRunOffline/releases
• Development builds: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/DDoSolitary/lxrunoffline > choose the first job > ARTIFACTS

Usage

See the Wiki to download tar files for different distros, which are used by the LxRunOffline install command.

Run LxRunOffline for available actions and run LxRunOffline <action-name> for available arguments/flags.

Build

Visual Studio

Visual Studio 2017 and Windows SDK 10.0.17134 are required.

Install vcpkg and its VS integration (if you haven't) and install dependencies.

vcpkg install --triplet x64-windows libarchive boost-program-options boost-format tinyxml2

Then build with Visual Studio or MSBuild.

MSYS2

Open the "MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit" shell, and install necessary packages.

pacman -Sy --needed --noconfirm base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain mingw-w64-x86_64-libarchive mingw-w64-x86_64-boost mingw-w64-x86_64-tinyxml2

Then run make.

Compatibility

• v1.x: Only Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (v1709) or earlier.
• v2.x: Only Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (v1709) or later.
• v3.x: Only Windows 10 April 2018 Update (v1803) or later.

It is strongly recommended to install the April 2018 Update and use v3.x releases.