Has anyone made a Flashing host using wsl on Windows PC?

Hello,

Is it possible to configure a flashing host pc using an Ubuntu virtual machine such as wsl?
Has anyone ever run nvidia internally?

Thank you.

I do not use Windows for much, but one of the key reasons an actual Linux installation is needed is for support of loopback devices. Windows WSL does not support this. See:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39240068/bash-on-windows-10-no-loop-devices

Granted, there are some steps which Windows WSL might work with, e.g., adding optional packages after a flash, but loopback is absolutely mandatory for generating an image to be flashed.

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Hello,

If so, can the ubuntu virtual machine installed using virtual box or vmware act as a hostpc?

Thank you.

VMs can work. However, I have to warn you that it may be simpler to just set up dual boot. VMs have a very high rate of not handling USB correctly, and there is nothing the flash software can do about this…you’d need to learn to set up USB correctly. During flash USB repeatedly disconnects and reconnects, and most VMs will lose contact with the Jetson (the host PC may tend to intercept the reconnect USB event instead of always passing it through).

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