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New comment by johncslack in "Intel CPUs impacted by new PortSmash side-channel vulnerability"

johncslack — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 16:17:58 +0000

Yep, that's an important part of the approach used in Azure and Hyper-V.

Full details: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/virtualization/2018/08/1...

Disclosure: Microsoft, Hyper-V team

New comment by johncslack in "Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10"

johncslack — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 21:25:17 +0000

You're absolutely right. Hyper-V has historically focused on server use cases and not on the desktop experience. This has led to all sorts of rough edges on Windows desktop. That said, this is starting to change [1], and I'm optimistic we'll make more progress in this space moving forward.

Disclosure: work for Microsoft on the Hyper-V team.

[1] https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/virtualization/2017/11/1...

New comment by johncslack in "Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10"

johncslack — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 21:18:48 +0000

Hyper-V uses a type 1 hypervisor, which sits below the NT kernel. You might be thinking about the Windows Subsystem for Linux, which does sit on top of the NT kernel.

Disclosure: work at Microsoft on the Hyper-V team.