Hibernation options on laptops

[Mike Szumlinski]

If anyone has ever used Virtual PC for Mac, it does a great job of
hibernation. I can have 3 PCs running 3 Different OS and it just pulls them
up no problem...

Sorta off topic, but I figured I'd throw that in.

-Mike

On 6/11/01 7:40 PM, "Ben Pfaff" <pfaffben@msu.edu> wrote:

> Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu> writes:
> 
>> OK, I was browsing for more info on hibernating my laptop and found
>>  
>> http://www.mobilix.org/Mobile-Guide.db/mobile-guide-p2c1s8-apm.html
>> 
>> At the very bottom of the page it mentions "software suspend",
>> which in the words of the page "...may even be better than hibernate,
>> because now I can suspend my Linux system, boot into Microsoft
>> Windows, perform a few illegal operations and be shut down, and
>> then restart my Linux setup exactly where I left off! This is
>> something that cannot be done with hibernation, since that always
>> restores the last state that you suspended from, be it Microsoft
>> Windows or Linux. So if I want to switch to Microsoft Windows to
>> play games or do anything else, I can leave my Linux desktop exactly
>> as it is and return to how I left it."
> 
> Yeah, that's what I meant by "hibernation": software, not
> hardware hibernation.
> 
>> Anyone tried this?
> 
> Not me.  It's pretty experimental right now (but may still work).
> Lots of info and the patches themselves at
> http://falcon.sch.bme.hu/~seasons/linux/swsusp.html

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