Works on Windows Subsystem for Linux

[bronson]

A Debian guest running in WSL worked great. This script is really impressive.

To prepare, I only had to make VBoxManage.exe available as VBoxManage. I did it like this:

sudo apt-get dmg2img unzip wget
mkdir -p ~/bin
ln -s /mnt/c/Program\ Files/Oracle/VirtualBox/VBoxManage.exe ~/bin/VBoxManage
export PATH=~/bin:$PATH

If you think it's worth it, I could send a PR that prepares a WSL path similar to how it currently prepares a Cygwin path and calls VBoxManage.exe if VBoxManage is missing.

[bronson]

Oh, I should mention that sometimes I had to hit <space><enter> when it was asking "Press enter when something is ready". It ignored plain <enter>. Probably some WSL incompatibility.

[myspaghetti]

I have no experience with WSL but I believe Cygwin is more portable and WSL is only available for Windows 10, so I believe I'll stick with Cygwin unless there are other advantages to WSL.

[jonathanweinberg]

I don't think @bronson is implying to get rid of the Cygwin method, but eventually, WSL will be very mainstream. Just an option to allow easier adoption/use.

[myspaghetti]

I'd gladly accept a pull request with an if statement that identifies running under WSL and adds VBoxManage to PATH, but I would like to keep everything under one working directory (no creating symlinks in ~/bin) and avoid elevating privileges (ask the user to manually install the packages).

[bronson]

Yes, I agree with all those points. If I can find some time to try to get iMessage going again, I'll put together a PR. (won't be the next few weeks tho!)

Closing since this is now a wishlist item.