Exporting and importing WSL distributions

Exporting

In PowerShell:

wsl --export Ubuntu Ubuntu-01.tar

where Ubuntu is the distro name.

Importing

wsl --import UbuntuA C:\Users\dmitriano\wsl\UbuntuA Ubuntu-24.01.tar

probably the folder C:\Users\dmitriano\wsl\UbuntuA should exist.

The following files are created:

ext4.vhdx
shortcut.ico

Listing

wsl --list
Windows Subsystem for Linux Distributions:
Ubuntu (Default)
UbuntuA
Ubuntu-22.04

Running

wsl -d UbuntuA

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