The Luftwaffe is no longer overhead, you don't have to live like this

So one thing I've done when I needed a physical drive OS but also wanted it to be referenceable from another OS is to make a direct reference virtual machine in VirtualBox. Your mileage may vary, and you take a chance on data loss, of course. But I've done this successfully several times. Here's a link, but also look at the VB docs carefully to see the setup you want. It runs fast, too.

https://superuser.com/questions/495025/use-physical-harddisk-in-virtual-box

Eh, it's always run slow and buggy for me. I prefer Genymotion even though it'd not open source. It even runs on old Atom processors last I checked.

There's an IR blaster on my OnePlus Open and the casual ease of fixing a display TV where the remote wasn't working was divine

not for long...