Correct. There often is a gap between what should be & what is 😉
I think we've both lived through the various phases. And for a while there wasn't consistency in IBs with this nor are IB VMs, now, following settings, which, certainly isn't right AND are not blurred, aside from whatever the default is supposed to be.
Where it gets hazy is whether to call it an OS "bug" if only manifests itself in a vm environment.
Cheers,
VM is supposed to emulate the real machine, if it does not behave according to settings, there is a bug somewhere with Hyper-V.
I've been running a VM shop for many years before Windows even existed.
Things are not much different.
To find the bugs caused by VM we had to compare the behavior of a native OS versus the behavior as a guest.
The same logic still applies now. 😆
Note that there is a big difference with the mainframe environment licensing scheme.
The license is based on the model and power of the host machine and I could run as many guests as I wanted without having to pay a separate license for every guest VM that I was running on the same host system.
The fact that I need a separate license for testing insider builds in Hyper-V VM is really ridiculous.
Why should I pay a license for doing MS testing work ?
That is just one of the reasons why I refuse to play with Hyper-V VM, I still have plenty of old real machines sitting at home doing nothing I have no reason to use VM, not even to save electricity, given that I use solar panels.. 😎