I don't know what you expect. Hyper-V is Microsoft's virtualization platform. If you don't want to run Hyper-V then you have no available solution from Microsoft. And Hyper-V is NOT a guest OS. It's part of the parent OS which is Windows Server. This is no different than VMware which is a customized version of Linux.
As I said before, Hyper-V is it from Microsoft. It IS installed directly as Hyper-V is part of Windows Server. You're not installing any other Server OS to get Hyper-V. VMware is the same thing. Do you think VMware is just some new OS that they created? No. It's a derivative of Linux. You don't seem to have a problem with how VMware works. So why should you with Hyper-V?
Another example of hypervisors are KVM, Xen, and Acropolis from Nutanix (which is a customized KVM hypervisor) with both being customized Linux.
The predecessor to all the Linux based hypervisors was the VPS (virtual private server) feature in Linux.
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