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From: Patrick Kelly <kameo76890@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Date: Fri,  8 Jan 2010 11:52:58 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] parallels
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As far as I know you would need an emulator not a virtualizer.

On Jan 8, 2010, at 2:12 PM, geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:

> I don't have enough experience with VirtualBox to make a sensible
> comparison.
>
> The thing that none of the VM monitors seem to offer (though I'd love
> to be proven wrong) is debugging tools for the guest operating
> systems.  This is odd, as it was one of the major uses of VM/370.  So
> if a guest kernel goes off into space, the VM monitor shuts down the
> virtual machine or resets it, but provides no means to find out what
> happened, though it's in a perfect position to easily do so.
>
>