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Virtualbox is absolutely brilliant for reverse-engineering windows executables so I'm glad to hear this.


That sounds really interesting. I use VirtualBox all the time and have done a bit of reverse-engineering in the past. Could you elaborate on how VirtualBox helps with reverse-engineering windows executables please?


Are you using it strictly as a virtualisation host, or are you using the fact that you can set up serial ports and whatnot to do Windows kernel debugging?

I personally use VMWare Fusion for reversing Windows executables, VMs are invaluable in that snapshotting aids in quickly returning to a known good state, and I can continue to take notes in applications outside of the VM to keep track of my progress.


Both as a virtualisation host and I've dabbled in a bit of kernel debugging using it.


Can you point to a link for this, or briefly explain? Are you connecting vbox to a debugger?




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