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| Thread ID: 141419 | 2015-12-15 08:04:00 | Switching between different OSs | iansmcdonald (6977) | Press F1 |
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| 1412969 | 2015-12-15 08:04:00 | Is it possible to have two different OSs (Windows and Linux, say) both running simultaneously with the ability to switch between them? I DON'T mean a dual boot, where you choose between them and have to more or less restart if you want the other one. I imagine that switching would never be as easy as switching between two apps/programs, but I would have thought it wouldn't be too difficult to have one OS actually live, and the other in shadow memory on the HD or a USB or even in RAM. Then when you want the other OS, the current one is stored (rather like hibernation/sleep) and the new current one is placed in RAM. It may well be that doing all this is no quicker than using a dual boot system, which might be why it (apparently) isn't done. I don't see any issue with different OSs using memory and/or peripherals in different ways as computer copes quite happily with this now. Any thoughts? |
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| 1412970 | 2015-12-15 08:28:00 | Look at VMware player. If you run that on widows. The in the virtual machine you can tn Linux | psycik (12851) | ||
| 1412971 | 2015-12-15 22:08:00 | Virtualisation. | inphinity (7274) | ||
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