WSL2 uses a Hyper-V virtual machine [1], which is a native hypervisor [2] and doesn't come with most of the performance costs of software VMs. [1] https://en.w

WSL2 uses a Hyper-V virtual machine [1], which is a native hypervisor [2] and doesn't come with most of the performance costs of software VMs. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-V https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-V [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor#Classification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor#Classification