Verify active Pro subscription and automatic Pro attachment with Ubuntu Pro for WSL¶

Pro feature

This page refers to features that require an Ubuntu Pro subscription and access to the Ubuntu Pro for WSL application, which is currently under development.

If you have just installed and configured UP4W and a verification step is failing, wait for a few seconds and try again. The process should not take longer than a minute.

Pro subscription¶

After installing UP4W on a Windows machine and entering your token you should see a confirmation that your Pro subscription is active:

Confirmation in graphical interface that subscription is active.

Find and run Ubuntu Pro for WSL from the Windows start menu at any time and the app will confirm whether you are subscribed.

Pro-attachment¶

Note

To verify Pro-attachment WSL should be installed on the Windows machine along with an Ubuntu distro — Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will be used in this example.

To verify Pro-attachment a new Ubuntu instance needs to be created. Running the following command in PowerShell will create a new Ubuntu-24.04 instance and prompt you to create a username and password for the machine:

PS C:\Users\me\up4wInstall> ubuntu2404.exe

You will now be logged in to the new instance shell and can check that UP4W has Pro-attached this instance with:

u@mib:~$ pro status

The output will confirm the following:

Services like ESM are enabled
Account and subscription information for Ubuntu Pro
Verification of Pro-attachment

SERVICE          ENTITLED  STATUS       DESCRIPTION
esm-apps         yes       enabled      Expanded Security Maintenance for Applications
esm-infra        yes       enabled      Expanded Security Maintenance for Infrastructure

NOTICES
Operation in progress: pro attach

For a list of all Ubuntu Pro services, run 'pro status --all'
Enable services with: pro enable <service>

     Account: [email protected]
Subscription: Ubuntu Pro - free personal subscription

Each new Ubuntu WSL instance that is created should automatically now be Pro-attached.

To find other useful Ubuntu pro commands run:

u@mib:~$ pro status

Landscape¶

For verification and troubleshooting of Landscape server and client configuration please refer to Landscape | View WSL host machines and child computers.