I wish they could finally include some mechanism to map running WSL instances to a hostname / static ip. Also, a big difference to running a vmware instance is that you never know when the WSL instance is shut down, and you can't save the "state", that is, hibernate or suspend it.

Honestly, i just want a replacement for vmware that uses less resources. So i can run a completely isolated desktop for each project i'm working on. Suspend it, reboot my machine, and then load it up and continue where i left off, all windows and terminal sessions intact. The last bit assumes one can run a (non ephermal) graphical desktop of course, which rules out docker pretty much.