From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: From: Patrick Kelly To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <13426df11001081118h6fa92afds588de1756c91367b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPod Mail 7D11) Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 11:55:39 -0500 References: <3e1162e61001081100q356c0fbn31c779f60f8f53c0@mail.gmail.com> <8d4a75e55fc55419d48a3859337bc7da@plan9.bell-labs.com> <13426df11001081118h6fa92afds588de1756c91367b@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] parallels Topicbox-Message-UUID: ba80fd16-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Jan 8, 2010, at 2:18 PM, ron minnich wrote: > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:12 AM, wrote: >> I don't have enough experience with VirtualBox to make a sensible >> comparison. > > I had a horrible time with virtual box and Plan 9. > > Did not work at all well. I would avoid it. > >> >> 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. > > Ah, but i wonder if the commercial guys have been "requested" by > microsoft not to make such debugging easy. Seems like it would be an > ideal way to learn things they don't want you to know... Visual studios debugger gives a decent amount of information, although its obfuscated... > ron >