Is there a way to snapshot a running process to disk to restore it later?

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Mar 15, 20266568 views

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I usually work with a lot of instances of visual studio open to different projects, I was wondering if there is a way to snapshot/hibernate a running process to disk instead of closing it so that I can open it in the same state as it was quickly. I have a ton of free disk space so wouldn't mind sav…

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I do this using VirtualBox from Sun for separating projects. It's also handy because you can take snapshots. The drawback is you need to put an entire OS on there.

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