WSL Manager 2.0 ships a built-in MCP server letting agents create and run Linux distros
bostrot · reddit · 2026-09-08
The maintainer of WSL Manager, an open-source GUI for the Windows Subsystem for Linux, released version 2.0 with a built-in MCP server that lets AI clients like Claude Code and opencode manage the full distro lifecycle: creating from a catalogue or any Docker image, import/export, editing wsl.conf and .wslconfig, start/stop, packaging portable .wsl files, and unregistering.
Notable design points:
- Persistent terminal sessions: agents can run commands and keep state between calls.
- Sandbox tools: sandbox tools are locked to a throwaway distro for isolated experimentation.
- macOS support: the same toolset drives native Linux VMs via Apple's Virtualization framework.
- Connectivity: streamable HTTP on 127.0.0.1 with a bearer token for direct Claude Code/opencode access, a one-click mcp-remote config writer for Claude Desktop, optional Cloudflare tunnel, and a web dashboard reusing the same tools.
Distro management is free and open source; the MCP server and AI chat are part of the paid Pro tier. Repo: github.com/bostrot/wsl2-distro-manager
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