diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 2d45031232..5502d27cec 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ ALL_OS_ARCH_OSVERSION=$(foreach os, $(ALL_OS), ${ALL_OS_ARCH_OSVERSION_${os}})
 CLUSTER_NAME?=ebs-csi-e2e.k8s.local
 CLUSTER_TYPE?=kops
 WINDOWS?=false
+WINDOWS_HOSTPROCESS?=false
 
 # split words on hyphen, access by 1-index
 word-hyphen = $(word $2,$(subst -, ,$1))
@@ -149,6 +150,15 @@ e2e/external-windows: bin/helm bin/kubetest2
 	EBS_INSTALL_SNAPSHOT="false" \
 	./hack/e2e/run.sh
 
+.PHONY: e2e/external-windows-hostprocess
+e2e/external-windows-hostprocess: bin/helm bin/kubetest2
+	WINDOWS_HOSTPROCESS=true \
+	WINDOWS=true \
+	GINKGO_SKIP="\[Disruptive\]|\[Serial\]|\[LinuxOnly\]|\[Feature:VolumeSnapshotDataSource\]|\(xfs\)|\(ext4\)|\(block volmode\)" \
+	GINKGO_PARALLEL=15 \
+	EBS_INSTALL_SNAPSHOT="false" \
+	./hack/e2e/run.sh
+
 .PHONY: e2e/external-kustomize
 e2e/external-kustomize: bin/kubetest2
 	DEPLOY_METHOD="kustomize" \
diff --git a/hack/e2e/run.sh b/hack/e2e/run.sh
index 8aa987d333..c889c52db6 100755
--- a/hack/e2e/run.sh
+++ b/hack/e2e/run.sh
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ if [[ "${HELM_CT_TEST}" != true ]]; then
       --set image.repository="${IMAGE_NAME}"
       --set image.tag="${IMAGE_TAG}"
       --set node.enableWindows="${WINDOWS}"
+      --set node.windowsHostProcess="${WINDOWS_HOSTPROCESS}"
       --set=controller.k8sTagClusterId="${CLUSTER_NAME}"
       --timeout 10m0s
       --wait