From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 27 13:35:06 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 CBF7616A4CE for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:35:06 +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 55D5843D53 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:35:04 +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 9864669A42; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 08:35:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 08:35:02 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: ctodd@chrismiller.com Message-Id: <20041227083502.2d865466.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0beta4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.10) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:35:06 -0000 ctodd@chrismiller.com 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. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com