Using VS Code Server Web UI as a front-end of VS Code?

[jducaud]

Hello,

I would like to use VS Code Server in WSL2-Ubuntu [VSCS@WSL2] as a front-end for VS Code in Windows 10 [VSC@W10].

The goal is to access, through the VSCS@WSL2 web UI, the whole coding environment of VSC@W10 (meaning Android SDK, Flutter SDK and all the VSC@W10 extensions I have installed). Note that WSL2-Ubuntu and Windows 10 are on the same machine (WSL2-Ubuntu inside Windows 10).

So I installed the Remote Development extension package in VSC@W10. No problem.

Then I downloaded:

• the Remote Development extension package (VSIX file)
• the Remote SSH extension (VSIX file)
• the Remote Container extension (VSIX file)

After that, I manually installed in VSCS@WSL2 those 3 VSIX files (>Extensions: Install from VSIX)

The Remote Container extension installation failed (incompatible with current VS Code Server version) but the 2 others succeeded.

When I tried the >Remote-SSH: Connect Current Window to Host... the Chrome Tab address went to http://127.0.0.1:8080/?ew=true, embedding VS Code Server Web UI with its status bar purple instead of cyan.

Despite the fact I set in the VSCS@WSL2 settings.json:

"remote.SSH.showLoginTerminal": true,
"remote.SSH.useLocalServer": false

... I got no prompt in the terminal of the VS Code Server to enter the passphrase of the private SSH key.

Maybe VS Code Server does not support those "Remote" extensions...
Maybe this is architecturally impossible...
Maybe I missed something...

[jsjoeio]

Yes, we don't currently support the Remote extensions. See #1315

[jducaud]

Ah damn! I missed that one (#1315)...
Thank you for your answer

[jsjoeio]

Don't worry, it was hard to find even for me ("remote" and "extensions" are almost in all issues 😂). No problem!