The parent partition is not considered a VM, nor does the implementation of VBS make the "parent partition" (with just VBS, it isn't) a VM. https://learn.micro

The parent partition is not considered a VM, nor does the implementation of VBS make the "parent partition" (with just VBS, it isn't) a VM. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/reference/hyper-v-architecture https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-... The parent partition has full access to hardware and child partitions (VMs). The hardware is not virtualized to the parent.