Share Hyper-V machine between 2 Windows 8.1 OS

Hi,
I have a laptop with dual boot on two Windows 8.1 OS.
I have Hyper-V on both Windows 8.1 installation. One boot for work and other for personal use.
But sometime i need to work in my hyper-v machine in the both Windows 8.1 installation.
It is possible du share hyper-v machine between the OS ? Is not very useful to export or copy the vm each time i need to boot in my other Windows 8.1.
Thank you!

Yes, you can do that, but ...
You would need to create two VMs, one in the Server and one in the Client. But they could point to the same directory - make another partition on your laptop that has the same drive letter on both platforms. You would actually share just the
VHDX file. You might be able to import in place on one platform after creating the VM on the other platform, but I think it would be safer to simply have new VM definitions on each system.
.:|:.:|:. tim

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