Patent ID: 9558010
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a memory configured to store a first operating system kernel; and a processor configured to load a second operating system kernel and one or more software components to a region in the memory, to tag the region in the memory, to initiate a boot of a second operating system kernel while preserving in the tagged region contents stored therein, and following the boot of the second operating system kernel, to access the one or more software components from the tagged region; wherein the one or more software components are selected from a list comprising a boot loader, a service and a software application, and wherein the processor is configured to execute the one or more software components by populating a virtual file system (VFS) cache of a disk-based the system with the tagged region, and executing the one or more software components from the VFS cache.