How to run disco diffusion V5 on windows 10 with WSL

WSL-disco-v5-tutorial.md

Install Disco Diffusion v5 for Windows w/ subsystem for linux!

Use this notebook that has been edited for this guide

• https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1HAt1nbnjxzyIrCOHxk5R0uWEPEgcEF8q

1. Enable subsystem for linux on windows!

Make sure to run PowerShell as Administrator.

(CHOOSE ONE!)

• Option A (control panel)
  1. Open control panel and click "Programs" from here select "Turn windows feature on or off"
     • This should have opened a new window with a list of features, scroll all the way to the bottom
  2. Select "Windows Subsystem for Linux"
  3. Also select "Virtual Machine Platform"
  4. Restart your pc after installing
• Option B (PowerShell)
  1. PowerShell: Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux
  2. PowerShell: Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName VirtualMachinePlatform
  3. Restart your pc after installing

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2. Upgrade WSL to version 2

Make sure to run PowerShell as Administrator.

1. Update Windows 10 to version 21H2
   • This might be listed under the "view optional updates" text/link on the update page
   • check current version
     • PowerShell: winver
     • PowerShell: wsl -l -v
2. If you do not have wsl version 2 from wsl command
   • Make sure you have "Receive updates for other Microsoft products when you update Windows" checked in Advanced options of the Updates sections
     • If unchecked rerun the windows update process again
   • PowerShell: wsl --update
3. After updating WSL to version 2 we need to tell it to use version 2 on current distro and future ones
   • PowerShell: wsl --set-default-version 2

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3. Download & Prepare linux Distro

1. Open the microsoft store app and search "Linux", i went with Ubuntu 20.04
2. Setup username and password for linux distribution
3. Run the following command to update some things
   • Linux: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

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4/. Anaconda + Jupyter (included in anaconda)

1. Download anaconda
   • Linux: wget https://repo.anaconda.com/archive/Anaconda3-2021.11-Linux-x86_64.sh
2. Install the library
   • Linux: bash Anaconda3-2021.11-Linux-x86_64.sh
3. Refesh bash for anaconda install
   • Linux: source ~/.bashrc
4. Start Conda & Install Dependencies
   • Linux: conda config --set channel_priority false
   • conda update --all --yes
   • conda create -n disco_v5 python=3.8.10 --yes
   • conda activate disco_v5
   • conda install -c conda-forge opencv --yes
   • conda install pytorch=1.10.0 torchvision torchaudio cudatoolkit=11.3 -c pytorch -c conda-forge --yes
   • conda install -c fvcore -c iopath -c conda-forge fvcore iopath --yes
   • conda install pytorch3d -c pytorch3d --yes
5. Install needed pip dependencies
   • Linux: pip install lpips datetime timm pandas matplotlib ftfy
   • Linux: pip install opencv-python ipywidgets omegaconf>=2.0.0
   • Linux: pip install pytorch-lightning>=1.0.8 torch-fidelity einops wandb
   • Linux: pip install --upgrade jupyter_http_over_ws>=0.0.7
6. Enable the extension for jupyter
   • Linux: jupyter serverextension enable --py jupyter_http_over_ws
7. Start the jupyter server
   • Linux: jupyter notebook --NotebookApp.allow_origin='https://colab.research.google.com' --port=8888 --NotebookApp.port_retries=0 --no-browser
8. Use this notebook that has been edited for this guide
   • https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1HAt1nbnjxzyIrCOHxk5R0uWEPEgcEF8q