Eric Kjeldergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
