Patent ID: 11972265
Assignee: RED HAT, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
booting, by a processing device of a first device, a primary operating system using a primary operating system image residing in a first disk partition, wherein the primary operating system comprises a base operating system, wherein the primary operating system provides a first service;
booting, in parallel to booting the primary operating system, a secondary operating system using a secondary operating system image residing in a second disk partition, wherein the secondary operating system comprises a copy of the base operating system, wherein the secondary operating system provides the first service and a second service; and
responsive to a detection of at least one triggering event of a set of triggering events, switching from the primary operating system to the secondary operating system, wherein the set of triggering events comprises at least one of: satisfying a condition associated with the first service provided by the primary operating system and the secondary operating system, or detection of a presence on a network of a second device, wherein the first device is connected to the network.