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Technical (Development, Security, etc.) => General Programming => Operating System Development => Topic started by: Joe on June 19, 2005, 07:46:05 pm

Title: Testbed vs Emulator!
Post by: Joe on June 19, 2005, 07:46:05 pm: Well, do you prefer a testbed box, or an emulator? Emulators have nice debugging information unavailable on a testbed box, because its lower level than any debugger, but a testbed box is sometimes better, because emulators are after all only emulators of a real box.

For myself, I usually test in MS VirtualPC, because JoeOS loads a lot faster on 2.4GHz than on 166MHz, but I often test new big stuff on poptart, my testbed box.
Title: Re: Testbed vs Emulator!
Post by: Blaze on June 19, 2005, 09:21:06 pm: Testbed... as in another computer to test it on?
Title: Re: Testbed vs Emulator!
Post by: zorm on June 19, 2005, 09:49:56 pm: I plan on using both, emulator will be used when changing things and such. When I have a semi stable version it will be tested on a test bed.
Title: Re: Testbed vs Emulator!
Post by: Joe on June 20, 2005, 12:02:40 am: A testbed is the OSDev term for another computer. In my case, that is poptart, my compaq.
Title: Re: Testbed vs Emulator!
Post by: MyndFyre on July 05, 2005, 08:49:35 pm: Quote from: Joe[x86] on June 20, 2005, 12:02:40 am
A testbed is the OSDev term for another computer. In my case, that is poptart, my compaq.
OMG it's restricted to OSDev? WTF?!? I've been using that term all this time for general software testing! WTF was I THINKING?! Everyone is going to think I'm a freaking moron now!!!!1!!!1eleven!1!!!
Title: Re: Testbed vs Emulator!
Post by: Joe on July 06, 2005, 05:42:08 pm: Lub MyndFyre.
Title: Re: Testbed vs Emulator!
Post by: MyndFyre on July 06, 2005, 06:41:28 pm: Quote from: Joe[x86] on July 06, 2005, 05:42:08 pm
Lub MyndFyre.

;-)

On that note, I like VirtualPC. It's handy, and if you've got sufficient memory for it to not need to use the swapfile, you could easily do a dump of all kernel and non-kernel memory. Fun stuff :)
Title: Re: Testbed vs Emulator!
Post by: Warrior on July 06, 2005, 06:53:09 pm: bochs ..
Title: Re: Testbed vs Emulator!
Post by: Joe on July 07, 2005, 01:26:41 am: MyndFyre, mind giving me some info on the memory dump? Sounds fun.
Title: Re: Testbed vs Emulator!
Post by: MyndFyre on July 08, 2005, 01:48:31 pm: You can use CurrProcess (http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cprocess.html) to dump the memory of your VirtualPC process.