2 OS working together at the same time ?

[EvCloud]

my work require me to use 2 operating system at the same time on 1 PC,(without resarting the pC and boot to another OS.) so that i can easily flip to another OS, without killing the current OS i'm using.

i'm thinking is there any software which can get 2 OS working together at the same time?

 

[n0cmonkey]

VMWare.

 

[batmang]

yep, Vmware is the only one i can think of that works flawlessly. I've ran it before using linux as my primary os, win2k as my secondary. Worked without a problem.

 

[spyordie007]

<-Using VMWare here to test our web apps cross-platform, VMWare rocks (just make sure you have plenty of RAM to spare).

-Spy

 

[EvCloud]

thanks, i will try it.
i'm sure it will help greatly!

 

[TerryMathews]

VMware is the only product that allows you to have two concurrent OSes running. And even at that, it's an operating system within an operating system, not exactly two at the same time. More like a master-slave relationship.

 

[BaDaBooM]

VMware is good but not the only one. Connectix Virtual PC has worked well for me.

 

[Armitage]

Also NetTraverse Win4Lin much cheaper then VMWare, but only does Win9* AFAIK
I think there is also a free software effort towards this capability also. Can't recall the name.

 

[elbirth]

Quick question about all this.....

I have WinXP installed currently.... would I be able to install a 2nd harddrive, install Linux on it, and use VMWare to have Windows as primary and Linux as secondary? How stable would something like that run?

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: elbirth
Quick question about all this.....

I have WinXP installed currently.... would I be able to install a 2nd harddrive, install Linux on it, and use VMWare to have Windows as primary and Linux as secondary? How stable would something like that run?

I've never run Windows as the primary, but with Linux as the primary & Win2K as the secondary, it was very stable. Just sucks up alot of CPU and RAM