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takamarou
July 31st, 2009, 03:44 PM
Hi all,

First off, sorry if this is the wrong section. I'm not a ubuntu forums frequenter, so I might be doing this wrong.

I am considering doing a dual boot of gOs and Ubuntu(Jaunty). My issue is that I would like to find a method of quickly switching between each OS, instead of having to completely restart my computer.

I have heard rumors of a method in which you put each OS in hibernate and then switch, but I haven't found any concrete ways to do this.

If anyone could give me some hints on a way to speed up the process of switching OS's, that'd be great. I'm not concerned with my applications staying open between switches; I would just like to not have to restart my computer.

Thanks a bunch,
Takamarou

Mighty_Joe
July 31st, 2009, 04:22 PM
How about installing one OS in a virtual machine like VMWare or VirtualBox?

joelgsf
August 2nd, 2009, 01:19 AM
I have tried both suggestions myself, and I would stick with VBox. It runs smoothly on a Ubuntu machine, and is much lighter and easy to configure than VMWare, and it is free and open. You don't need to switch, you can have several OS's running simultaneously.