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Hyper-V would not be able to run Red Dead Redemption 2. VMware ESXi with a Win10 guest OS can.

Wat? I play games all the time on my Windows 10 + WSL2 setup.... which is exactly as I described: Windows running as a guest under Hyper-V alongside Linux.

And you have RDR2 running in that configuration? I mean to run RDR2 in your Windows guest OS that runs under Hyper-V? Because I tried that and it won't run. I could only run it under VMWare ESXi

I believe the point he is making is that the games can run in the native Windows above Hyper-V and then WSL2 / other Linux installs can be run under Hyper-V from the native Windows OS.

As far as I understood it, Hyper-V is a native hypervisor like Xen or ESXi. So if you're using Hyper-V even your Windows is running as Guest alongside any other Hyper-V VMs and WSL2.

Yes, although it has a "root partition", which could only be Windows up until a month ago[0].

[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200914112802.80611-1-wei.liu@...

yes,

And I can have running wsl2 session with RDR2 running.

as far as I can tell, enabling wsl2 (thus hyperV) did not slow down windows in any meaningful way I could find.

I was also confused by this recently.

Enabling wsl2 enables Windows' "virtual machine platform", which Windows itself will then run on top of as a guest.

And yes RDR2 is running stable 100fps uwqhd at max settings on my machine under these conditions.

I tried to find the official doc that explains it clearly, but cannot otherwise I'd share.

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