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This is one point of view but not comprehensive. Yes, hyper-v starts before parent partiton OS and takes control over part of (but not all) HW resources. But for disk & network i/o, hyper-v relies on device drivers etc in parent partition OS, they perform i/o operations. Afaik the best description is: hyper-v is type 1 hv regarding processor/interrupts/memory management and type 2 regarding i/o operations, it cannot run without (is dependent on) Windows in parent partition.
Yes, it will. But forget snapshotting.
They are hypervisors, not emulators.