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2049 points bpierre | 1 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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soneil ◴[30 Mar 16 23:18 UTC] No.11393768[source]▶
I'm failing to see the difference between this, and any other VM?

Is WOW in the cpu identifiers "windows-on-windows", the shim they use for "xp mode"?

If everything's mounted under /mnt(/c..), and the screenshot shows nothing mounted there - Can this run just like a VM without the host fs mounted?

I'd be really curious to see; if linux attempts to access raw block devices in /dev/, what's actually there. in the process list in windows, are all linux processes enumerated.

For now it just looks like a linux VM with the guest fs mounted in the host, and the host fs mounted in the guest.

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1. JdeBP ◴[03 Apr 16 10:00 UTC] No.11415575[source]▶
> I'm failing to see the difference between this, and any other VM?

Then you've failed to take in the point, copiously made in pretty much all of the coverage of this (and often right at the start), that this is not a virtual machine.

This is Windows NT, the operating system designed with "personality subsystems" right from the start, gaining another subsystem that lets it run ELF64 binaries that were compiled to run on top of the Linux kernel.