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Originally Posted by Oko
Dual/multiple OS booting has no practical purpose.
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False.
- For those with limited equipment, or equipment meager in comparison to today's de facto standard, multibooting is an option, & it should not be eradicated because it is no longer considered cool.
- Contrary to other environments where virtualization is considered to be bug-free, the OpenBSD community is not ready to make such a blind pronouncement.
While the essence of
raindog308's argument is that the convenience which virtualization provides eclipses the mere sharing of diskspace, perhaps this is sufficient for some.
Lastly, bare-metal testing is still the gold standard in verification. Testing only in virtualized environments is considered a sloppy practice.