The NT kernel does not operate like that, at least not anymore... The NT kernel originally had Microsoft POSIX subsystem[0], which was discontinued and replace

The NT kernel does not operate like that, at least not anymore... The NT kernel originally had Microsoft POSIX subsystem[0], which was discontinued and replaced with Windows Services for UNIX[1], which was then replaced with Windows Subsystem for Linux[2]. WSL has had two versions; WSL 1 implemented a subset of linux syscalls directly in the windows kernel. This was discontinued and replaced with WSL 2 WSL 2 is running, you guessed it, a linux VM[3] > The original version, WSL 1, differs significantly from the second major version, WSL 2. WSL 1 (released August 2, 2016), acted as a compatibility layer for running Linux binary executables (in ELF format) by implementing Linux system calls in the Windows kernel. WSL 2 (announced May 2019), introduced a real Linux kernel – a managed virtual machine (via Hyper-V) that implements the full Linux kernel. As a result, WSL 2 is compatible with more Linux binaries as not all system calls were implemented in WSL 1. > Version 2 introduces changes in the architecture. Microsoft has opted for virtualization through a highly optimized subset of Hyper-V features, in order to run the kernel and distributions > The distribution installation resides inside an ext4-formatted filesystem inside a virtual disk, and the host file system is transparently accessible through the 9P protocol When you run linux containers on a windows host, you're running those containers inside of a linux vm. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux#WSL_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux#WS...