Comment by firesteelrain
10 hours ago
I thought WSL2 is functionally a virtual machine with deep host integration. That’s why you need HyperV.
10 hours ago
I thought WSL2 is functionally a virtual machine with deep host integration. That’s why you need HyperV.
Sort of. Technically speaking, just enabling hyper-v turns your base windows install into a VM. Wsl2 then just runs along side
Enabling hyper-v turns your base windows install into a VM host, not a virtual machine itself.
It's kind of both. Hyper-V is a bare-metal (type 1) hypervisor. Windows runs virtualized, one level above it, in a privileged (host) VM, next to other (guest) VMs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-V#Architecture
Huh that’s interesting I didn’t realize that