From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 2 15:09:50 2005 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 E92E716A4CE for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 15:09:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD8A343D48 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 15:09:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from working.potentialtech.com (pa-plum-cmts1e-68-68-113-64.pittpa.adelphia.net [68.68.113.64]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE5E169A3F; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 10:09:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 10:09:49 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: Eric Kjeldergaard Message-Id: <20050102100949.6d0822d5.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20041227083502.2d865466.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0rc (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.10) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: ctodd@chrismiller.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 15:09:51 -0000 Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: > > > 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. Actually, not really, as I've been unable to make modern versions of VMWare work on FreeBSD. But it's a great way to boot Linux under Windows, or FreeBSD under either, or have multiple OSes running simultaneously under a single computer. > 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) I agree that it would be a great feature. I was just offering a potential alternative until it's written. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com