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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone here worked on the Windows kernel? by DaiPlusPlus on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @04:22AM (#32080203)
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?
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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone here worked on the Windows kernel? by xmodem on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @05:06AM (#32080404)
Virtual 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.
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