Take the 2-minute tour ×  Is it possible to have a machine that
is a Hyper-V server, be able to directly boot from cold start
into the VM from the native hardware the machine runs on?  A
non-virutalized server is available in addition to the described
Hyper-V host.  All machines are running Windows Server 2008 R2
x64. The VM is Windows 7 Enterprise x64.  share|improve this
question  2 Answers 2  up vote 1 down vote accepted  A Hyper-V
server itself can't boot into a VM because it must run the
hypervisor layer and the only OS you will see on that box is the
parent partition. It is, however, possible for a physical server
to boot into a VM/VHD if you're running either Windows 7 or
Windows 2008 R2. For more information on how that works, look
here.  share|improve this answer What a stupid limitation – 
Chris Marisic Feb 17 '11 at 19:14 What's stupid about it?
Hyper-V or not, in order for a virtual machine to function,
there has to be a layer of virtualization code between it and
the hardware. The only way a VM c