jdsanchez473
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I just had this idea pop into my head, and i think its doable (but prob. only by the mobo manufactures)..
I was thinking how nice it would be to be able to boot your computer into say windows, then without completely restarting the computer, save whats in memory to disk, pull windows out of memory and start your fav. linux distro. After the linux distro is started up, you could also then save it to disk, and load windows back up and be right where you left off. So basically you could switch operating systems on the fly without having to shut down, or loosing any current work. I know someone is going to say use some form of a virtual machine (vmware, vbox, ms vm, etc...) but the whole point here is to be able to switch back and fourth on the fly, and having 100% of the system resources available to whichever OS you currently have running.
Just an idea, i have no idea how to implement something like this, but im just putting it out there hoping this idea may get to someone who can implement it.
I was thinking how nice it would be to be able to boot your computer into say windows, then without completely restarting the computer, save whats in memory to disk, pull windows out of memory and start your fav. linux distro. After the linux distro is started up, you could also then save it to disk, and load windows back up and be right where you left off. So basically you could switch operating systems on the fly without having to shut down, or loosing any current work. I know someone is going to say use some form of a virtual machine (vmware, vbox, ms vm, etc...) but the whole point here is to be able to switch back and fourth on the fly, and having 100% of the system resources available to whichever OS you currently have running.
Just an idea, i have no idea how to implement something like this, but im just putting it out there hoping this idea may get to someone who can implement it.