WHOA HEY I'M BACK AGAIN

Hi. Long time to talk. I'm back from the dead to talk about the Steam Deck.

This thing looks supes cool, but even though I reserved mine within two hours of pre-orders becoming available, I won't be getting mine til Q3 of this year :( I've been doing a lot of research on the Deck and I have one question that I've yet to find an answer to: Can it run a virtual machine? Obviously there aren't any virtual machine apps within Steam, but what about Desktop mode?

It's just Linux, right? There are virtual machines on Linux. I know there are a lot of Windows Games that the Steam Deck can't currently run, but what if some older games were playable inside of a virtual machine on the Deck? It could open a new world of possibilities. If anyone's still here, let me know your thoughts or if this is even possible. I'm getting excited thinking about it.

Quick update: From what I've read, it looks like it should be possible, but it wouldn't be able to access the GPU.  That shouldn't be too much of a problem for older games that don't use many resources, right?  I just want a portable retro pc in the palm of my hands (not a laptop).  I have the original GPD Win but it's so slow.