Sort of. Technically speaking, just enabling hyper-v turns your base windows install into a VM. Wsl2 then just runs along side
Huh that’s interesting I didn’t realize that
Enabling hyper-v turns your base windows install into a VM host, not a virtual machine itself.
It's kind of both. Hyper-V is a bare-metal (type 1) hypervisor. Windows runs virtualized, one level above it, in a privileged (host) VM, next to other (guest) VMs.