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Debugging SMP Code with UML

Posted by michael on from the XYZPDQ dept.

chromatic writes "It's easy to write code that works fine on single-processor systems but dies horribly on multi-processor boxes. Instead of spending thousands of dollars on a four- or eight-way system, you can use UML to emulate a multi-processor machine."

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  1. Bochs also does this by mcgroarty · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Bochs will also emulate SMP machines. Bochs pretends to be an x86 machine with one or more processors, and runs on all Linux architectures, as well as Windows, Mac OS X and several BSDs.

    It's no speed demon, but it's about the nicest free tool for machine-level debugging.