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Business. For better or worse, there are plenty of places where the policy and tech allow WSL but installing a hypervisor on your machine is much more challengi
by nijave 6y ago
Business. For better or worse, there are plenty of places where the policy and tech allow WSL but installing a hypervisor on your machine is much more challenging.
WSL2 is basically just a Linux VM, though (I think it actually uses Hyper-V containers which seem to occupy some weird space between Linux container and VMs)
- pram 6y agoHyper-V is VMs not containers. When you enable Hyper-V it's actually the 'operating system' and Windows is a guest VM believe it or not.
- pjmlp 6y agoThis is how every type 1 hypervisor works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor
- Dylan16807 6y agoBut it's not how type 2 hypervisors work, and traditionally when you used virtual machines on a desktop it was type 2.
- pjmlp 6y agoThat was long time ago, most people using VMware also use ESXi, and mainframes use type 1 as well. Just those using Virtual Box for free not.
- Dylan16807 6y ago> most people using VMware also use ESXi Most people using it are also using servers. Is ESXi on desktops/workstations anything other than very niche?
- pjmlp 6y agoYeah and? The whole point was about knowing what type 1 hypervisors are all about. Where they are used is orthogonal to having knowledge. Managing VMware installations requires having that knowledge.
- nijave 6y agoSure but, afaik, the docs originally called the "light weight" isolation mode Hyper-V Containers vs the traditional Hyper-V VM with more features exposed