# 2 agents on a host with dual boot?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/2-agents-on-a-host-with-dual-boot/380149
**Category:** Elastic Agent
**Created:** [July 15, 2025, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/2-agents-on-a-host-with-dual-boot/380149 "2025-07-15T21:55:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@vector\_vulture](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vector_vulture)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2025, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/2-agents-on-a-host-with-dual-boot/380149/1 "2025-07-15T21:55:16Z")
I read that you cannot run 2 elastic agents on 1 system, but I am assuming this is referring to 2 agent's on a single running operating system..
What about the situation where a desktop PC has 2 drives, one Windows and one Linux? The PC will obviously boot only 1 OS at the same time, and I can run the agent as root/Admin on both operating systems. Both would only run when the other does not and look at different files. Would that work, since only 1 is running at a time? I suppose both would be different policies, how would that manifest itself in my fleet server agent overview?
Kind regards
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### Author:  [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/2-agents-on-a-host-with-dual-boot/380149/2 "2025-07-15T23:23:30Z")
This works, these are 2 different systems independent from each other.
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### Author:  [@vector\_vulture](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vector_vulture)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/2-agents-on-a-host-with-dual-boot/380149/3 "2025-07-18T21:07:42Z")
Thanks for confirming @leandrojmp
Do you know how it will it manifest itself in my fleet overview if both operating systems have an identical host name?
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### Author:  [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2025, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/2-agents-on-a-host-with-dual-boot/380149/4 "2025-07-18T21:55:32Z")
Each installation will have a unique id, if the hostname is the same you will see the hostname twice in the list of agents, but one online and the other offline.