How to make a tar file of wsl through Docker

I've been playing with the remote development function of VScode recently. It can connect to Docker's container and also to WSL. The container under window runs on WSL, so I'll study how to connect to WSL directly instead of letting Docker, the second-hand dealer, make a profit from the price difference.

Through the wsl -l -o command we can see the list of images that can be installed remotely.

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I can never download the image through Microsoft Store, and the command line doesn't work either. It may be that there is a problem with the network here (sometimes it can be downloaded, (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻). According to the official website, you can use docker to make a tar file yourself and import it into wsl, WSL documentation, and I also want to install CentOS to try it.

No one runs an operating system just to run an operating system

# Pull the centos image docker pull centos
# Create a container,
docker run -it centos 
# List all containers and find the container ID of centOS
docker container ls -a
# Export the distribution docker export c9e89339e9d2 > e:\centos.tar
# Import the distribution to wsl, command format wsl --import <Distro> <InstallLocation> <FileName> 
# Remember to create the corresponding folder wsl --import CentOS E:\wslDistroStorage\CentOS e:\centos.tar
# View the installed wsl 
wsl -l -v
# Start and enter the system wsl -d CentOS
# Done,
# Under the extension, specify the default distribution, wsl --setdefault(-s) <DistributionName>  
wsl -s CentOS
# After specifying the default distribution, you can enter it directly, and wsl will enter the CentOS distribution by default.

OK Done.

Move the location of wsl

C:\Users\Administrator> wsl --l -v
  NAME STATE VERSION
* docker-desktop Running 2
  docker-desktop-data Running 2
# Export, export wsl to the specified file C:\Users\Administrator> wsl --export docker-desktop-data "D:\Docker\wsl\data\docker-desktop-data.tar"
  # Remove the original virtual machine. All information will be cleared after deletion. C:\Users\Administrator> wsl --unregister docker-desktop-data
  # Generate a new virtual machine, that is, import the virtual machine at the specified location, --version 2 is to specify wsl
  # version. If you have already set wsl2 as the default, you do not need to specify it again.
  # If there is no special requirement, use the new one.
C:\Users\Administrator> wsl --import docker-desktop-data "D:\Docker\wsl\data" "D:\Docker\wsl\data\docker-desktop-data.tar" --version 2

docker

Rename Docker container

docker rename <container id/name> newName

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