Instantaneous switch between OS running natively on the Smart Book

This video shows a demo of the Always Innovating Smart Book, featuring the switch between multiple OS running natively at the same time, without any performance loss. You can buy the Smart Book at http://www.alwaysinnovating.com.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Touch Book
• Smart Book
• Always Innovating
• Chrome
• Android
• Ubuntu
• Meego

[SmugVirusFreeMacUser]

So is this just using chroots?

[gregoiregentil]

If you just do chroot for Android, it won't work at all. Our architecture is much more complex and involves how to handle all the input / output peripherals.

[PhantomAct]

@HandiGandy Wait, so it's not like that Parallels software for Macbook?

[HandiGandy]

Do the two operating systems have to be ChromeOS and Android? For example could I have Android and MeeGo?

[HandiGandy]

@PhantomAct You can in a way, if you have a large enough laptop ( generally 1G or more of memory ).Here is what I did to a desktop. First I got fed up with Windows because I got a virus. It wasn't because of the virus, but the reaction to it when I tried to remove it. I got advice from a lot of people who were telling me to run programs without telling me what the programs were doing. I said "this is like the old IBM mainframe priesthood" and went Linux.

I put XP on a VirtualBox VM.

[PhantomAct]

Wow! Can I do that on my old XP laptop? I just want to switch between XP and Linux until I know enough Linux to ditch Windows completely. Thanks

[rwmacleod]

Is the other OS active when it's in the background? Is this technology also open source?

[ringonian]

the only thing i can think of is that the dm is virtualized, possibly using lxc.