Hyper-V
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
1warn against
Nov 3, 2025first mention
Oct 10, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“as does using the Hyper-V VM system”
“I use Hyper-V with great success for driving my Linux and FreeBSD development.”
Caveats and dissent
“when Hyper-V will make this usable out of the box for any guests”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
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All comments 14
Nowadays I use it mostly for Linux containers.
“as does using the Hyper-V VM system”
“I use Hyper-V with great success for driving my Linux and FreeBSD development.”
Microsoft just upstreamed support for running Linux as the Hyper-V equivalent of Dom0, so no Windows required. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-Improves-Hyper-V
“when Hyper-V will make this usable out of the box for any guests”
“At my job we use HyperV”
“At my job we use HyperV”
“I used to run HyperV in Azure on certain SKUs”
“I used to run HyperV in cloud”
See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualization/hyper-v/architecture.
“I use hyper-v for a Linux dev environment on a windows workstation.”
“Regular Hyper-V VMs can use it too but it's not well documented.”
“Perhaps if you're a Microsoft shop you're looking at Hyper-V?”
It does, https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windowsosplatform/azure-host-os-%e2%80%93-cloud-host/3709528