Easy, using remote debugging, just like we already can do with embedded hardware, JEE and ASP.NET servers.
It is just a matter of tool maturity.
It is just a matter of tool maturity.
Err.. today's remote debugging is strongly based on the premises of the issues being isolated to some degree: broken app will not hit the network stack over which you run you remote session, misbehaving network stack doesn't impact serial communication, so using gdbserver is still possible (but already significantly harder), etc.
Will it be the same with unikernels?
When I talk to JEE servers via JMX I don't care if they run on as OS process, on a container, hypervisor or even a bare-metal JVM.
Likewise I get to enjoy cluster monitoring tools like Visual VM, Java Mission Control, New Relic APM, DataDog and many others, all blissful unaware of how the JEE server are actually deployed.
So I don't see why unikernels can't provide debugging access points for such kind of tooling.
But I think the whole point on the thread was that, making all this possible on unikernels, would require putting back a big part of the code that went away when making the unikernel lean and mean (and interesting because of that).
An optional debug layer for JVM, Erlang, CLR running bare-metal (just as possible language examples) is tailored made for such runtimes and much thinner than all the services a general purpose OS needs to provide.