Re: approaches to debugging a platform-dependant bug

Does anyone have any bright ideas on how to debug a platform-dependent problem like this?

This is where virtualization really shines. Get a copy of the free VMWare player, XEN or another favorite virtual machine tool, install RedHat and test! Linux Journal just did an issue with articles on virtualization. I know developers who have four simultaneous virtual machines up and running constantly to test apps on different platforms. Way cool and easy to implement.

--traveler

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Re^2: approaches to debugging a platform-dependant bug by bcrowell2 (Friar) on Apr 10, 2006 at 00:22 UTC
Hmm...I checked out vmware and xen, and decided to give xen a shot, since it's open source, and vmware isn't (?). I got xen runnning from the demo cd, but unfortunately Red Hat isn't one of the options that comes on the demo cd. Then I started working on getting a full install of xen working, but after putting a few hours into it, it looks like that's just beyond my expertise. Cool idea, but in my case, with my skills, it just doesn't seem to be practical.	[reply]
Re^3: approaches to debugging a platform-dependant bug by traveler (Parson) on Apr 10, 2006 at 14:39 UTC
The info on redhat and Xen is here. Also check out Qemu. It is a true processor emulator (but does have an accelerator to use the actual CPU):http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/	[reply]