Linux How to quickly switch to Windows from Linux without Virtualization

dovakhiin

dovakhiin

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Last ago I set up my first Arch Linux distribution for studies and programming.I was already a fan of gnome 3 but after setting Arch up I pretty much fell in love with it.Unfortunately now the need for studying and programing is over for the rest of the year.Rebooting to Windows each time I want to play a game is definitely not an option so I've ended up using Windows for everything.

So I was wondering if there is anyway to boot windows from within Arch without the use of any Virtual Machine like VMware etc which would slow the games down.Something that would sort of save the Arch session on the Hard disk and boot to windows from within the Arch session itself.Is this possible?
 
nuke'em said:
So I was wondering if there is anyway to boot windows from within Arch without the use of any Virtual Machine like VMware etc which would slow the games down.Something that would sort of save the Arch session on the Hard disk and boot to windows from within the Arch session itself.Is this possible?
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AFAIK, there is no such thing. The best you can do is use VMware from windows.
 
I wish I could do the same too! :P

Only option is to use VMware I guess. But if I wanna run an OS, I would rather install it on a separate partition on my disk rather than run it in VMware.
 
^Me too...It defeats the whole purpose of installing a light weight distribution like Arch when you have Windows running in the background,thats why i don't wanna use VMware.Even googling didn't return any good results.I'll still keep looking for some kind of solution or else I'll just try reducing my boot times:P
 
You have quite a good computer. It surely should not take more than 30-45 seconds to reboot to windows, or vice-versa. During that time you can get up from your chair, and do some light stretching.
 
People, you can also install them on separate partitions AND then use VmWare to run it off the physical partition itself. THis way you can run it as needed, whether via VmWare, or direct as per your mood.

This should work, though may require some work on your part :)
 
unixguru said:
You have quite a good computer. It surely should not take more than 30-45 seconds to reboot to windows, or vice-versa. During that time you can get up from your chair, and do some light stretching.
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I want to repeatedly switch back and forth quicky.I'd just like the option of just switching to a game when I'm in the mood,the 30-45 second delay gets annoying.On the other hand with all that light streching I'd be doing if I'd followed you're advice I might just become a ninja :P

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techie_007 said:
People, you can also install them on separate partitions AND then use VmWare to run it off the physical partition itself. THis way you can run it as needed, whether via VmWare, or direct as per your mood.

This should work, though may require some work on your part :)
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I was thinking about asking this...from what I'd heard you needed to use a seperate image for installing and running a specific OS on VMware.This is definitely interesting...I'll check this out and see how it performs.

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vivek.krishnan said:
Cooperative Linux

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andLinux.org -- Run Linux natively inside Windows

Run Linux from within windows, but apparently only on 32bit windows. Have a look, found these while searching for something else.
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Damn I have 64-bit.But coooperative linus looks like exactly what I was looking for.I'll check it out...Thanks.
 
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