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[โ€“] dan@upvote.au 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Windows itself is technically running in a VM if you have Hyper-V enabled (not quite that simple, but that's a reasonable approximation). Hyper-V is a type 1 hypervisor which means it runs directly on the underlying physical hardware, and both Windows as well as any VMs you create are running on top of Hyper-V.

Oh that's an interesting tidbit, didn't know that