Comment on Phil Spencer wants Epic Games Store and others on Xbox consoles
woelkchen@lemmy.world 5 months agoEven Microsoft knows windows containers are fucking shit
The Xbox System Software contains a heavily modified Hyper-V hypervisor (known as NanoVisor) as its host OS and two partitions. One of the partitions, the “Exclusive” partition is a custom virtual machine (VM) for games; the other partition, the “Shared” partition is a custom VM for running multiple apps including the OS. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_system_software#System
Xbox already runs two VMs. Just throw in a third with real Windows.
Defaced@lemmy.world 5 months ago
A VM and a container are two completely different pieces of technology…
woelkchen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m sorry I mixed up the terminology. I was sure the point of “Microsoft can ship Windows with Xbox” came across no matter what.
Defaced@lemmy.world 5 months ago
No worries, it’s an understandable mistake.