write state to swap for multi-os boot

[Bill Moran]

ctodd at 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.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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