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The host is the hypervisor though isn't it? Not the Windows inside it.



Exactly this. If you're running WSL2 then you're in Hyper-V mode, which means Windows itself is also running virtualized. The WSL VM is a sibling of Windows on the hypervisor stack, not hosted inside of.




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