Even with hibernation it's not really possible to boot into another OS that quickly. If you want both systems running side by side it's probably easier to use a VM.
On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 at 15:50 Peter Holm <[email protected]> wrote: > I was accidently posting this directly to zimbatm. I reposting it to the > list. > > 2017-02-03 1:42 GMT+01:00, Peter Holm <[email protected]>: > > I was more thinking about something like this > > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/3111 > > But with custom kernel for each dist, some way to save the running > > process and reload them within a ureadhead-reboot (fake stay at the > > same system). > > > > The computer should flicker a bit - kick you out from the current > > x-session and then be able to restore the state of the sesssion with a > > login prompt from the dm. > > > > One had to write a custom hibernate-handler for that. > > > > Is that impossible, or just "hard" to get done.? > > > > 2016-12-30 12:48 GMT+01:00, zimbatm <[email protected]>: > >> Hi Peter, > >> > >> When nix is installed on another distro what you get is a > >> `~/.nix-profile/bin` installed in your PATH before the usual > >> /usr/bin,/bin > >> and so on. So if you install userland tools they will "replace" the > >> system-provided ones just because the path lookup will find them first. > >> So > >> in that sense you get a unified userland between distros if you install > >> the > >> same nix packages. Does that answer your question? Note that this only > >> works for userspace program and not system services. > >> > >> On Tue, 27 Dec 2016 at 06:15 Peter Holm <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> My question is regarding Nix multiuser-install. > >>> Is it possible to replace the base-system with packages from nix.? > >>> Or even better - boot to base-system from nix core, and keep desired > >>> tools from the previous userland.? > >>> > >>> My idea is simple - if its can be done. Then probably one vould > >>> ectand it to on-the-fly switch userland between distros and keep whats > >>> installed from nix. Ok, you have to rebind or replace some > >>> config-files... But , i belive that should not be impossible to get > >>> going.? > >>> > >>> /Peter > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> nix-dev mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > >>> > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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