Microsoft Begins Landing Hyper-V Isolation VM Support In Linux 5.16

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Microsoft Begins Landing Hyper-V Isolation VM Support In Linux 5.16

Microsoft has submitted their set of Hyper-V hypervisor updates today for the Linux 5.16 merge window. This time around it's noteworthy with the initial enablement work around Hyper-V "Isolation VM" support...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...-VM-Linux-5.16

[Random_Jerk]

Pardon my ignorance, but can someone please explain what scenarios this code impacts? Does it provide isolation to WIndows VM's running under KVM or does it provide isolation to Linux VM's running under WIndows WSL2?

[NobodyXu]

Pardon my ignorance, but can someone please explain what scenarios this code impacts? Does it provide isolation to WIndows VM's running under KVM or does it provide isolation to Linux VM's running under WIndows WSL2?

They are bringing hyper-v hypervisor support into Linux so that you can run hyper-v VMs in Linux, with the Linux act as the hypervisor(the host).