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You are right that Windows itself runs under Hyper-V as a guest when virtualisation-based security is enabled and it even has paravirtual devices that are not m
by neilalexander 3y ago
You are right that Windows itself runs under Hyper-V as a guest when virtualisation-based security is enabled and it even has paravirtual devices that are not massively different to VirtIO.
I think your statement about VMware Workstation is right as of today too with recent versions, although for a long time older versions would simply refuse to start if it detected that Hyper-V was enabled, presumably because it made assumptions about the host virtualisation support.
- andix 3y agoIt's not just security features that need Hyper-V. Also WSL (Linux on Windows) or the Android Subsystem (run any side loaded app or anything from the Amazon App Store) need Hyper-V. Both of them are super useful for me, more and more things are iOS/Android App based only. Linux should speak for itself.
- ComputerGuru 3y agoOnly WSLv2 needs (or uses) Hyper-V.
- andix 3y agoBut WSL1 is de-facto dead, although it is still supported.
- ComputerGuru 3y agoIt still makes more sense than v2 for certain patterns.
- OkGoDoIt 3y agoI still use WSL1 daily. It makes a lot more sense than WSL2 for me. If I want a VM of Linux, I’ll run a VM of Linux. The exciting thing about WSL from the beginning was the notion of actually running Linux processes in Windows without a VM.