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To add to above:

Virtualization & Containerization security depends a great deal on the security of the underlying platform.

Hyper-V can be used on endpoints [1], similar to VMware Workstation.

It can also be installed as a role on top of Windows Server [2], and, used as bootable OS of its own[3] (likely deprecated in the future, so no hyper-v server past server 2019).

Related to this is the type of Windows server install, as it touches on attack surface also [4], but I believe there are constraints for the very small installs.

This matters because attack surface is likely to be, from smallest to largest: hyper-v server < Windows Server < Windows Endpoint

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-w...

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualizati...

[3] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-hyper-v-...

[4] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/d...



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