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I thought everyone doing OS/kernel dev would be running code in a VM they can pause, snapshot, and single-step all without a guest debugger?
by DaiPlusPlus 4y ago
I thought everyone doing OS/kernel dev would be running code in a VM they can pause, snapshot, and single-step all without a guest debugger?
- xmodem 4y agoVirtual machines are used extensively by kernel developers but are not an adequate substitute for real hardware in a lot of situations. After all, one of a kernel's jobs is to abstract away differences in underlying hardware.