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Emulation should always be Linux emulating Windows. Windows emulating Linux is just weird.
It's a Linux distro that's called Azure Linux and it looks like it's based on Fedora if the length of package attribution is anything to go by.
Its not emulation, it's a Microsoft distro
Two things, I was under the impression that Azure can emulate a lot of different Linux distro. Second, I thought the hypervisor ran on cut down version of Windows server.
VMs aren't emulation. Its a full OS running on virtual hardware. Also, yes, azure offers several distros, not just Microsoft's.
The OS of the bare metal host shouldn't matter much, if at all, to the guest. If you have a philosophical issue with the hypervisor running under windows I doubt you'd be using azure to begin with.
That makes sense. Thanks.
They are emulation by strict definition. You can't have virtual hardware without emulation.
I see your point, because commonly emulation is when an OS emulates another operating system to run a non-native software.