2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Pp. 357–362 of the Proceedings
Short Paper: Supporting Multiple OSes with OS Switching
Jun Sun, Dong Zhou, and Steve Longerbeam, DoCoMo USA Labs
Abstract
People increasingly put more than one OSes into their computers and devices like mobile phones. Multi-boot and virtualization are two common technologies for this purpose. In this paper we promote a new approach called OS switching. With OS switching, multiple OSes time-share the same computer cooperatively. A typical implementation can reuse an OS’s suspend/resume functionality with little modification. The OS switching approach promises fast native execution speed with shorter switching time than traditional multi-boot approach. We describe the design of OS switching as well as our implementation with Linux and WinCE, and evaluate its performance.
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