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> Hyper-V is started and the main Windows system runs in a privileged VM Wait it's all VMs? Always has been?! That is actual one sentence horror.
by moffkalast 3y ago
> Hyper-V is started and the main Windows system runs in a privileged VM
Wait it's all VMs? Always has been?! That is actual one sentence horror.
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- lodovic 3y agoSometimes it's hard to tell how many VMs there are between my code and the actual hardware. It seems to be VMs all the way down.
- deaddodo 3y agoIt hasn't always been, nor is it necessarily now. If you enable Hyper-V, that will act as Hypervisor for your machine and boot Windows by default. Applications that use it (VMWare, for instance, or Microsoft ones like WSL2) will add their own guests to the Hypervisor. It is not the default configuration. And it wasn't even installed before Windows 8.
- andix 3y agoIsn't virtualization based security the default for Windows 11? I only have upgraded Win 11 systems, so no idea what's the default on a fresh installation.
- deaddodo 3y agoMy fresh install of Windows 11 definitely didn't have Hyper-V active by default. It had to install it and reboot to activate the WSL2 subsystem. Now, to be fair, this was an install from a couple major updates back. So newer builds might have it active by default.
- Avamander 3y agoIt is on some hardware on latest feature updates.