For one 16 core standard edition licence I can use either (2 physical server) or (1 physical server and 1 Virtual Machine) or ( 2 Virtual Machine) only.
Assuming the host has no more than 16 cores then this is enough to license a single physical host one time. On that host you can install hyper-v role (no other roles) and then stand up two virtual machines.
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