Re: Multiboot

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:02:13PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:56:21AM -0500, "Loeghmon T. Nejad" <loeghmon@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> > I am learning Debian and I was wondering if it possible to install two
> > instances of Debian on the same machine. One as the production
> > workstation for the daily work, and the other for experimentation,
> > testing software, add/remove apps, etc. I can then boot into the
> > partition that I like based on the task at hand. Thanks.
> 
>   If you're running stable, and you don't need any special kernel
> drivers, you might want to take a look at xen for this sort of thing.  I
> had a xen system running here for a while with great success (I ended up
> wanting to run some 3d software, and xen isn't compatible with the
> NVidia drivers, sadly).  Xen is a little tricky to get set up, but it's
> great to not have to reboot the computer to switch systems, and to be
> able to reallocate space without having to resize partitions.
> 

For two instances of the same kernel, why not just use a chroot with
users using schroot -pc ?

Doug.