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Instantly switch between TC and windows XP

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Ulysses_:
Someone must have thought of this, and you in-depth guys may have some idea how it could be done.  

Is it possible to switch between linux and windows XP instantly?  Half the memory being used by linux, half being used by windows xp, and switching between the two at the press of a button?

I am NOT talking about virtual machines, but actual, full-speed operating systems running on physical hardware.

Obviously this would require very low-level tweaking. Very low-level knowledge of what is going on in the linux kernel and windows xp.

Any thoughts on this? Or you know who to ask?

curaga:
Many products do this, but they are always VMs, both of them, Win and Lin.

The only thing running on the hw in these cases is the hypervisor, which can be fairly low level.

vinnie:
I do not know if it would help, but Xen is a "different" type of virtualization.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen

curaga:
Or you could run linux on the base, with a Windows VM running full screen on one virtual desktop. I've seen that solution too.

Ulysses_:

--- Quote from: vinnie on March 11, 2011, 03:27:20 PM ---I do not know if it would help, but Xen is a "different" type of virtualization.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen

--- End quote ---

I happen to be aware of xen, but it's only for linux, both host and guests.  But what about windows XP tweaking to achieve something similar?

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