Patent ID: 7356677
Filing Date: 2008-04-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A hardware platform for a hibernate capable computer system comprising a system manager, said computer system having an OS-independent storage manager operating through a firmware level and a plurality of operating systems and applications, said storage manager having a virtual table of contents for organizing and accessing a plurality of partitions of relevant data and having a plurality of virtual computer systems, each of said virtual computer systems capable of accessing a selection of the partitions, the virtual table of contents (VTOC) being capable of dynamically configuring a plurality of partition tables, said system manager comprising: means for selecting one of said virtual computer systems to become next operable before suspending a currently operational virtual computer system; means for suspending the currently operational virtual computer system in an active state; means for making the selected virtual computer system operable into a running state, and means for switching of the virtual computer systems using a switch flag and BIOS ACPI solutions, and without initialization of power-on self test (POST) in the BIOS, wherein the switch flag is a flag that is set up in storage to differentiate between suspend for fast switching and power save suspend.