Hi All,

since Win 7 you can boot from VHD. If you decide to run something similar to Multiboot from several Primary Partitions from DOS/Win9?/WinNT/W2K/XP times this is probably the best way on current large disks/partitions.

On similar options for Linux this seems to be possible via Hyper-V supervisor/paravirtualizer. But then I still have to trust MS not to peek into my VHDx's and send info home as Windows 10 does. On booting directly into Linux from .VHD I found
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/309900/deploy-linux-into-and-boot-from-vhd
which is dated... Xen as alternative hypervisor might be another option, but I have no idea how well a sometimes needed Windoze guest VM is supported.

Running Windoze client VMs on older Ubuntu with VirtualBox was no real problem, guess with Antix (my current favorite at least as VM client) it will be similar. But I would prefer to start host OS from an easy to save vhd instead of a normal install.

Anybody tried something like that ?

regards

thomas