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I opened up my Hyper-V Manager console, and I noticed a VM running with the name "primary", which points to Ubuntu server-cloud muitipassd etc (see screenshots).

When I try to connect to it, it shows me a prompt to login:

Q1) How did this "primary" get there? I would never name my VM's with the name primary

Q2) What is the default password to login?

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  • Why is this tagged as WSL2? Inspection of the configuration file might be helpful – Ramhound Jun 29 '21 at 10:02
  • Tagged as WSL2 because I have a hunch this was a linux subsystem installed by WSL. If I knew the answer, I wouldn't be asking – joedotnot Jun 29 '21 at 10:56
  • So what is contained within the VMs configuration file? Do you have a WSL2 instance running? Is the up time of your WSL instance 16 days? – Ramhound Jun 29 '21 at 11:33
  • those questions should be asked to whom every set up the "primary' VM. No VMs are default or installed by Hyper-V. That VM was setup by someone in your organization. Creating a new WSL instance requires a password during setup, there isn't a "default" login. – essjae Jul 01 '21 at 15:37

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It turn out the "primary" VM was not setup manually by anyone.

It was setup when I ran Ubuntu multipass for Windows, found here https://multipass.run/

To use a linux instance, open a normal (Windows) command prompt and enter

multipass shell primary

That will be my linux shell (very similar to WSL2).

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