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Comment by IcyWindows

8 hours ago

Enabling hyper-v turns your base windows install into a VM host, not a virtual machine itself.

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noisem4ker  6 hours ago

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

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