Hi I'm new here

[John de la Garza]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 04:13:00PM +0800, Bowen wrote:
> I am just a new man in kernel development, there is a question bother me for a time. Is it neccessary to have a virtual machine when developing or debugging kernel?

Being able to access the machine monitor is very useful at times.  It
lets you look at registers, memory, hardware, etc.  I also appreciate
being able to quickly boot a kernel with the -kernel option.

see: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU/Monitor