Text below is extract from the article, Windows 8 Tip: Virtualize with Hyper-V.
Better still, Windows Virtual PC offered a feature called XP Mode,
free for users of Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate,
which included a full working copy of Windows XP with Service Pack 3.
But the big deal here is that as you installed applications in the
virtual copy of XP, they would be made available through Windows 7’s
Start Menu. And you could run these applications, side-by-side, with
Windows 7 applications on the Windows 7 desktop. It was a seamless,
integrated experience, ideal for those one-off application
compatibility issues.
I was thinking to install VirtualBox in Windows 8 and then run Ubuntu as guess OS. Since Hyper-V is a Type-0 hipervisor, may I know does this bring the same benefit if I have Ubuntu Linux install as a virtual guess OS? Meaning, if I turning the Ubuntu on (the guess OS), does the Ubuntu still able to access the hardware information like nVidia display card or processor information?
I'm just curious to know can this be done?