WSL container API C reference

The WSL container API exposes a C API for creating sessions, creating containers inside those sessions, starting processes, managing images, managing VHD-backed storage, and checking/installing required platform components.

Header: wslcsdk.h

Library: wslcsdk.lib / wslcsdk.dll

PREVIEW NOTICE: This API is currently in preview and is subject to breaking changes in future releases without prior notice. Do not rely on API stability for production workloads. Features, function signatures, and behaviors may change between releases during the preview period.

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In this reference

• Structures
• Callback Types
• Session APIs
• Container APIs
• Process APIs
• Image APIs
• Storage APIs
• Install and Version APIs
• Enumerations
• Error Codes
• Not Yet Implemented APIs
• End-to-End Example