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Just a reminder that enabling Hyper-V (needed for WSL2) will make your computer boot your current Windows install inside a VM too. This might makes a slight performance impact.

That doesn't sound right. Hyper-V is a Type-1 hypervisor, so by definition the Windows installation would not be running in its own VM (for some definition of VM).

And its pretty much exactly the same for Qemu/KVM on Linux, where Intel VT-x or AMD SVM hardware extensions are used to implement Type-1 virtualisation.



Unless I'm terribly wrong, when Hyper-V is enabled, it converts the current host Windows to a "Parent partition". This is what it's described here: https://superuser.com/questions/836116/hyper-v-appears-to-ru...




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