[SOLVED] Changing to another Linux system without rebooting
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Is it possible to "boot" to another system, say from Slackware to Ubuntu, without going
through a complete system reboot?
You could always skip the need to boot into another system and just run bedrock linux where you could do more than one distro at once as if it were just one system.
It still reloading the entire OS kernel space and userland for each kernel tool set. Android is based on Linux, but technically, it's not the same userland and each system handles the kernel and drivers differently. All this does is use a hypervisor to unload the userland and then reload the kernel without actually powering down the phone to reload the entire firmware image.
At the risk of repeating myself, there is still bedrock...
It does sound interesting. However, a quick perusal also seems like it might be more trouble than it's worth, and feel a little schizophrenic - you're never sure what distribution you're in... Also seems maybe not yet ready for prime-time?
I was about to ask the same.
I looked at it some time back, but don't recall ever getting to the stage of actually installing it. It appealed to me in that I always have several (stand-alone) disparate systems. But there is potentially a lot of setup - and scope for confusion. But it happens I have a laptop now available that may serve as an appropriate sacrificial lamb ....
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