Is it possible to use a iMac(2011)as display while mac mini is using windows7?

i have a imac 27‘（2011）running mountion lion,my new mac mini is runnning OSX and windows7 on bootcamp.
i can use imac as display when mac mini using OSX,but when mac mini switch to windows,command+f2 dose not work?
is it possible to connect like that?

Hmmmm, see if this works...
http://techtips.salon.com/use-imac-pc-monitor-1648.html

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