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Workaround: WSLC with DevContainers inside of WSL #247
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If you try to open a project from inside of WSL into a WSLC hosted DevContainer, under under ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers, 0.465.0 with wslc 2.9.3.0, it will fail. There's a few steps to correcting this. Hopefully Microsoft will update the the extension/wslc in the future to make this work out of the box, but for now, I've created a workaround: https://github.com/rbaker5/wslc-devcontainers-via-wsl.
It wraps wslc.exe in a shell script that avoids some errors that, causes it to fail. Tested for Ubuntu 24.04 as the WSL host. I also noticed that when you use a bind mount to a folder in the WSL filesystem, there's an unfortunate double-hop, that causes a loss of fidelity in things like the execute bit. While the first part of this workaround could probably be addressed by a new version of ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers, this second aspect seems like it needs help from WSLC itself.
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