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"Windows programs for Linux"?

Whoops, typo. Windows programs from Linux, I'll fix that.

You can mount other host filesystems from inside the VM in any hypervisor I know of.

In most hypervisors you can't do a

  notepad.exe foo.txt

  TextEdit.app foo.txt

for that matter in a Linux VM,

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With virtio-fs I think this is becoming more doable. Of course, it's not quite as fast as running a guest filesystem on virtio-blk yet, but maybe it'll get there.

WSL can run `notepad.exe foo` from bash. Not only fs integration.

> WSL can run `notepad.exe foo` from bash.

Isn't that just a binary loader, like you can do with wine/qemu on any Linux? Surely it's mostly just proxying the pipes, replicating the working directory, and maybe keeping some of the environment variables. The filesystem integration seems like the trickiest part of that altogether.

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