hyperlight-dev / hyperlight-dev/hyperlight

Rethink debug lifecycle

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Description

Currently, the initial breakpoint set up when creating a sandbox is set on the entrypoint function, which means that, when creating a sandbox from an initialised snapshot, it is never set up or executed, and a debugger has no easy way to attach.

Relatedly, the debugging infrastructure (and the initial breakpoint) is/are set up in `Sandbox::new()`, which means that whether a sandbox has a debug thread or not is decided once, at sandbox creation time, but there is also only one place to attach a debugger (at sandbox initialisation time): future function calls, or restored sandboxes, might not be easy to debug, even though they have a debug thread consuming resources.

See also: [this comment](https://github.com/hyperlight-dev/hyperlight/pull/1205#discussion_r2763004788)

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