Patent 11972265 was granted and assigned to Red Hat on April, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Systems and methods providing a parallel booting operating system. In one implementation, a primary operating system is booted using a primary operating system image residing in a first disk partition. The primary operating system includes a base operating system and provides a first service. A secondary operating system is booted in parallel to the primary operating system. The secondary operating system is booted using a secondary operating system image residing in a second disk partition. The secondary operating system can include a copy of the base operating system, and can provide the first service and a second service. Responsive to a triggering event, the primary operating system is switched to the secondary operating system.