feat: Add command to manually swap the GuestOS alternative#9154
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- Add sudo to the hostos_tool guestos-alternative swap call in limited-console, since writing to the boot partition requires root. - Add a corresponding NOPASSWD sudoers rule for the limited-console user.
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We already have an automatic mechanism that rolls back the GuestOS to the other boot alternative if the GuestOS boot fails. This PR adds a manual mechanism that node operators can use to swap the boot alternative manually.
The new commands are available through the limited host console: