If you're dual-booting, you can go one better and virtualize your Linux distro in the windows environment. It works fairly well, the only problem is making the disk available for both types of uses; virtualbox has the ability to use a disk partition, but for hyper-v or other, you may need to work around it by mounting a disk image. (Doing something like this is really only useful if you have to actually boot windows natively for gpu acceleration or other reasons)