From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8d4a75e55fc55419d48a3859337bc7da@plan9.bell-labs.com> References: <3e1162e61001081100q356c0fbn31c779f60f8f53c0@mail.gmail.com> <8d4a75e55fc55419d48a3859337bc7da@plan9.bell-labs.com> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 17:26:50 -0200 Message-ID: From: Iruata Souza To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] parallels Topicbox-Message-UUID: ba2d5530-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:12 PM, 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. =C2=A0This is odd, as it was one of the major uses of VM/370. = =C2=A0So > 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. > > > bochs offers you that to some extent.