From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 27 08:50:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A64C16A4CE for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 08:50:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ds.netgate.net (ds.netgate.net [205.214.170.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6C4843D58 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 08:50:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ctodd@chrismiller.com) Received: (qmail 2565 invoked from network); 27 Dec 2004 08:50:14 -0000 Received: from vp4.netgate.net (ibrew@205.214.170.248) by ds.netgate.net with SMTP; 27 Dec 2004 08:50:14 -0000 Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 00:50:14 -0800 (PST) From: ctodd@chrismiller.com X-X-Sender: ibrew@vp4.netgate.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: write state to swap for multi-os boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 08:50:29 -0000 Has anyone considered or accomplished allowing FreeBSD to write it's current state (including window manager, windows, etc) to swap and allowing a subsequent reload of the system to last state? This would be sort of like the sleep mode of a laptop, but would allow the user to boot into another OS (like Winblows) briefly and then resume their FreeBSD system state. I'd love to use FreeBSD as my primary desktop, but there may be times where I'll need to boot into Windows for apps that don't run under Wine. Since I tend to have a lot of application windows open, it's a PITA to have to reload everything on boot. Thoughts? Chris