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Docker Wsl 2 Installation Is Incomplete

Marcus Vance • • 3 min read
Docker Wsl 2 Installation Is Incomplete

After substituting Docker Desktop on Windows 10 with a more recent version, clicked to start it and got the following error

WSL 2 installation is incomplete

The WSL 2 Linux kernel is now installed using a separate MSI update package. Please click the link and follow the instructions to install the kernel update:

Press restart after installing the Linux kernel

By default, in Settings > General the option "Use the WSL 2 based engine" was already selected. This might be due to me already having Ubuntu 18.04 LTS locally.

If I go to Docker Desktop Settings > Resources > WSL INTEGRATION

You don't have any WSL 2 distro. Please convert a WSL 1 distro to WSL 2, or install a new distro and it will appear here.

How can I get Docker running?

2 Answers

There's two ways you can get it to work

  1. Using WSL 2 based engine.
  2. Without using WSL 2 based engine.

1 - Using WSL 2 based engine

In this page under "Download the Linux kernel update package".

and then Docker will start just fine

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