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> A lot of Windows features depend on Hyper-V, once enabled Windows is not booted directly any more, Hyper-V is started and the main Windows system runs in a privileged VM.

Got a source for this? Not that I don't believe you but other than for the Xbox I haven't seen/can't find any details about this.



Surprised you didn’t find the information, it’s covered in details in Microsoft own docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-...

quote:

“ In addition, if you have Hyper-V enabled, those latency-sensitive, high-precision applications may also have issues running in the host. This is because with virtualization enabled, the host OS also runs on top of the Hyper-V virtualization layer, just as guest operating systems do. However, unlike guests, the host OS is special in that it has direct access to all the hardware, which means that applications with special hardware requirements can still run without issues in the host OS.”

From https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-...


"Virtualization-Based Security: Enabled by Default"

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/virtualization/virtua...




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