WSL2 with Docker Desktop support

[roughnecks]

Hi,
I have a Debian WSL2 install on Windows 10 and I also installed Docker Desktop with WSL2 support.
Running beszel-agent in a terminal works fine using an external HUB (like on a VPS); the only requirement is to open the port on your router (port-forwarding), on Windows Firewall and last, but not least, on WSL itself:

Open a CMD prompt with admin permissions and run:
netsh interface portproxy set v4tov4 listenport=45876 listenaddress=0.0.0.0 connectport=45876 connectaddress=<wsl2 IP>

to get <wsl2 IP> run:
ip a and look for `inet' on eth0

inet 172.27.22.69/20 brd 172.27.31.255 scope global eth0
"172.27.22.69" in my case

If you have multiple VMs, chose the right one, obviously.

As for the filesystem, I ran:
df

and looked for "mounted on /"

Just to be clear, containers running in Docker Desktop are successfully shown in beszel stats.
I haven't tried running the agent in Docker, because it looked like over-complicating things.

Cheers

[henrygd]

Great, thanks for the info! Does this give you the correct CPU usage and memory of the windows host as well?

[roughnecks]

Well, CPU name is reported correctly, so I assume yes, while for memory it says "total" 8GB, while I have 16 on the host. If I run free -h on WSL2 though..

free -h
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           7.7Gi       1.4Gi       6.0Gi       101Mi       636Mi       6.3Gi
Swap:          2.0Gi          0B       2.0Gi

Not sure who/what allocated that mem to the VM, I don't remember having set anything up myself and this Debian guest was originally WSL1.

[roughnecks]

One thing that could be improved is disk space. It grabs "/" but in df -h it reports 1TB and so in Beszel, but I have a 320GB SSD where Windows and WSL run and a 2TB Data HDD, so I'm really puzzled here.

/dev/sdc 1007G 18G 939G 2% /

[roughnecks]

Also btop doesn't get disk info: