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Re:WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history by pram on Saturday January 02, 2021 @10:53AM (#25613589)
Hyper-V is VMs not containers. When you enable Hyper-V it's actually the 'operating system' and Windows is a guest VM believe it or not.
Re:WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history by nijave on Saturday January 02, 2021 @04:34PM (#25616752)
Sure but, afaik, the docs originally called the "light weight" isolation mode Hyper-V Containers vs the traditional Hyper-V VM with more features exposed
Re:WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history by pjmlp on Saturday January 02, 2021 @12:44PM (#25614579)
This is how every type 1 hypervisor works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor

Re:WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history by Dylan16807 on Saturday January 02, 2021 @02:21PM (#25615558)
But it's not how type 2 hypervisors work, and traditionally when you used virtual machines on a desktop it was type 2.
Re:WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history by pjmlp on Saturday January 02, 2021 @02:43PM (#25615742)
That was long time ago, most people using VMware also use ESXi, and mainframes use type 1 as well.

Just those using Virtual Box for free not.

Re:WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history by Dylan16807 on Saturday January 02, 2021 @02:47PM (#25615791)
> most people using VMware also use ESXi

Most people using it are also using servers. Is ESXi on desktops/workstations anything other than very niche?

Re:WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history by pjmlp on Sunday January 03, 2021 @02:09AM (#25620150)
Yeah and? The whole point was about knowing what type 1 hypervisors are all about.

Where they are used is orthogonal to having knowledge.

Managing VMware installations requires having that knowledge.