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by rtempaccount1 2606 days ago
It'll be interesting to see details here, which I guess will come out over the next couple of days.

They could either go the syscall emulation route (as in current WSL), or possibly the "thin hypervisor" route, the fact they're talking kernel versions makes me think that may be what they're planning...
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larrybud 2606 days ago
I suspect it's the "thin hypervisor", aka LCOW + hyperv isolation. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/premier-developer/running-doc...

(I work at Microsoft but have no inside knowledge on this; just speculating.)

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rtempaccount1 2606 days ago
Just saw there's some more technical details here https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/shipping-a-linux-....

Whilst it doesn't explicitly mention Virtual Machines or Hypervisors, I'd read this as making use of that kind of technology with some additional tech. for interop with Windows to the level of WSL currently.

EDIT: and here's the confirmation https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/ it's a VM

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