- Revirt is not full system, it’s UML only (AFAICT). VMware is full-system, and this has big implications – including being able to run windows and whatever else.
- Revirt has the debugger baked in already, VMware has not yet put out the gdb work needed. But the idea is to get there.

(Yes, I work for vmware, whatever I say is my opinion etc etc).

Next step: in stead of core files, making it “easy” for our users to do this, and to securely share that “execution recording” with us, developers. I wonder whether things like removing sensitive information from the execution path is doable. Many users might not trust all the unknowns of that execution path with us developers. Yet their recording would be extremely useful to spot many of the racy bugs that they spot.

This is really awesome dudes. You guys truly are the best at what you do.

There are so many applications for this, especially for software developers. Really I mean, I think you guys need to involve communities of software developers into developing useful things with this. Standardize it or specify it? Cooperate with software developers who work in the field of debugging software and development tools (and don’t forget the free software ones while doing this).

I can understand that the sales department would want to cash on a feature like this. I think, however, that the only way to truly sell this feature is to let the development-tool developers integrate with it.

They will come up with much more possibilities and applications for this.