Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 03:39:45 -0600 From: Eric Kjeldergaard <kjelderg@gmail.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: write state to swap for multi-os boot Message-ID: <d9175cad05010201392ac759df@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20041227083502.2d865466.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <Pine.BSI.4.58L.0412270043140.9248@vp4.netgate.net> <20041227083502.2d865466.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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> > 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? > > This isn't a direct answer to your question, but you might want to have > a look at vmware. > vmware and qemu (open source semi-alternative) are good ways to accomplish booting Windows from inside of FreeBSD. What you want, however, is something that has been on the wishlist for a little while now. Suspend-to-RAM has been around and works fine for a while, but Suspend-to-disc (which Linux currently has) is yet to be written. There have been suggestions of saving the RAM to swap space and shutting down. I hope to see someone put this into action soon. It'd be a great feature. (Especially for mobiles) -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised.
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