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NeutralWanted
6 days ago
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Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux
Sort of. Technically speaking, just enabling hyper-v turns your base windows install into a VM. Wsl2 then just runs along side
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IcyWindows
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Enabling hyper-v turns your base windows install into a VM host, not a virtual machine itself.
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noisem4ker
5 days ago
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It's kind of both. Hyper-V is a bare-metal (type 1) hypervisor. Windows runs virtualized, one level above it, in a privileged (host) VM, next to other (guest) VMs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-V#Architecture
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firesteelrain
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Huh that’s interesting I didn’t realize that
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