SUPPORTING MULTIPLE OPERATING SYSTEM ENVIRONMENTS IN COMPUTING DEVICE WITHOUT CONTENTS CONVERSION

摘要

Multiple operating systems can be deployed on a computing device by disk virtualization techniques that allow switching between a native operating system and a virtualized guest operating system without performing format conversion of the native operating system image stored within a partition of the physical data storage device. Supported. Disk virtualization technologies establish a virtual storage device in a way that allows the guest operating system to directly access the partition of the physical storage device containing the native operating system image.