[squeak-dev] binary development (was: 3.11 and the trunk)
David Farber
dfarber at numenor.com
Tue Aug 25 22:54:54 UTC 2009
On Aug 25, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
> One of the things the headless support in VW allows which is quite
> nice is taking a shapshot which can then be restarted in a headless
> mode for debugging.
Eliot - Was this VM or image-side support? Can you describe how it
worked?
> Not quite the same, but very neat: The other day at Qwaq Craig
> Latta had a VM crash while running in a Parallels Linux VM under
> gdb. He was able to give me a copy of the VM snapshot at the point
> where gdb stopped the process, giving me the opportunity to debug
> the live app at my leisure. A cool idea.
In other words, he was already running the Qwaq VM under gdb, so when
the Qwaq VM crashed (and left him at a gdb prompt), he simply
suspended the Parallels Linux VM and sent you a copy of the suspended
Parallels Linux VM. Is that right?
David
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