http://blogs.technet.com/b/dutchpts/archive/2008/09/30/running-applications-in-the-parent-partition.aspxThe parent partition, also known as the root partition, is the partition from which you manage Hyper-V. Besides running child partitions or Virtual Machines, you can install and run applications in the parent partition as well. This however is a bad ideaen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)