Switching from Vista to XP (& vise versa) without rebooting...?

no_1_dave · 20 Apr 2007 at 14:28

Is it possible to switch between vista & xp without rebooting when you have both os's...?
I have a dual boot with vista & xp, it gets annoying having to fully reboot just to load xp, then fully reboot again to get back into vista :confused:

gareth170 · 20 Apr 2007 at 14:32

i think theres only virtual environment that can do that

PhillyDee · 20 Apr 2007 at 17:07

They are 2 seperate OS's, unless you could have the runnign side by side, which afaik isnt possible.

marc2003 · 20 Apr 2007 at 18:41

gareth170 said:
i think theres only virtual environment that can do that

yup. you can't alt-tab between operating systems just yet.

HangTime · 20 Apr 2007 at 20:07

Get yourself two PCs

I can't see this working without it having a negative impact on performance. Probably the best you could hope for would a change to the way the Hibernate function works, allowing you to have multiple OS' hibernated and then choose which one you want to activate on startup.

jackassuk56 · 20 Apr 2007 at 20:10

just use virtual machine on vista .

may be a little bit slow but its the closest thing u can get.

jackassuk56

marc2003 · 20 Apr 2007 at 20:41

jackassuk56 said:
just use virtual machine on vista .

may be a little bit slow but its the closest thing u can get.

jackassuk56

what do you use? if you use microsoft virtual pc then yes it's dog slow. try virtualbox. it's much faster.

http://www.virtualbox.org/

Hodders · 20 Apr 2007 at 21:54

Or vmware server which is ace and free.

|Ric| · 20 Apr 2007 at 21:57

xen, never used it but it is a virtualisation thingy

edit: not implying that it can actually do it, you might just want to investigate it

marc2003 · 20 Apr 2007 at 22:03

Hodders said:
Or vmware server which is ace and free.

well they're all free so that's a moot point. vmware is good but virtualbox is my weapon of choice nowdays. it's noticeably faster than vmware and also works in vista as the host system. i'm not sure if vmware server does....

Shane5578 · 20 Apr 2007 at 22:56

i use vmware for linux and vista

also i also use it to automate my games by using bots on each virtual machine.

ya games do work, thanks to vmware tools/drivers

leexgx · 21 Apr 2007 at 09:42

@no_1_dave

long time i been here i seen you posting questons a lot all the time (not an problem but you ask a lot id probly say you done 1000 questons by now asuming you only replyed once in each post you made)