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Of course all applications, virtualization and everything else will be closed when a user logs out. Hyper-V has a nice feature, though: you can leave a vm on and running and just log out from your account in host or shutdown / hibernate your host PC:
When signing back in you can select if the vm will be automatically restored to its saved state or booted up, and set the delay for that:
If you instead of signing off just switch users, the Hyper-V virtual machines keep running normally on your user account as any application would do. You can simply use remote desktop connection to remote it from another user account: User A has setup a vm in Hyper-V in his user account. User B needs to use the PC, User A agrees and switches to User B's sign-in page leaving his account running in the background.
User B signs in and can now use remote desktop to connect to the vm in User A's profile "space".
If the User B wants to connect to User A's vm directly from the Hyper-V manager, he needs first to be added to Hyper-V Administrators group:
Only the first user setting up Hyper-V in Windows will be added to Hyper-V Administrators automatically, all other users need to be added manually.
Kari