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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 10:47:41 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Running Qemu in discrete time/step by step
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To: Matt <mattator@gmail.com>
Cc: "Nutaro, James J." <nutarojj@ornl.gov>, "Emilio G. Cota" <cota@braap.org>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Hajime Tazaki <tazaki@wide.ad.jp>

On 23 October 2017 at 10:38, Matt <mattator@gmail.com> wrote:
> I did not know about Qemu's record/replay mode which is an interesting
> feature but unneeded if a  2nd qemu run with the same inputs generated
> the same outputs (as it's the case with DCE).

Depends what you're trying to do. Deterministic execution is
a prerequisite for record-and-replay, and sometimes determinism
is all you need, but record-and-replay can provide more than that.

thanks
-- PMM