the way i understand it hibernating an OS dumps ram to a file and powers off, so could it be possible to run two OSs “simultaneously” by alternating between hibernations?
Its not something ive come across but its almost like youre describing hotswapping Operating Systems?
Someone else mentioned this, but your likely best bet is to have virtual machines instead. If you need windows on occasion but use linux as your daily driver, use a VM on the linux host?
If its more for like gaming and such, youll be able to do VMs still but you will likely need an additional GPU - a bogstandard one just for video output for the host, and then the main GPU is “given” to the VM to use
Probably easier to just run one, or both, as a VM.
i know i was asking if it was theoretically possible
Yes, this works. However, you can not (or should not if you possibly could?) modify data on partitions mounted by the hibernating OS. If E.g.Windows and Linux are installed and Windows is hibernating, the NTFS partitions can only be mounted read-only under Linux.
yea i know i meant it as a way to speed up dualbooting. cos having to shut down an os to get to the other one is a bit annoying
If i may ask what OS and for what do you dual boot? Windows and Linux? Gaming?
linux mint and windows for gaming
