a logic analyzer or a bus analyzer may be used to capture data from a source computer system to diagnose a problem arising in the source computer system . in many cases the problem can be traced to a particular hardware / software subsystem . quite often , a customer of the manufacturer of the hardware / software subsystem maintains the source computer system . in the manufacturer &# 39 ; s facilities is a reference system operated by a technician or engineer responsible to test and support the hardware / software subsystem . the source computer system and the reference system thus may involve different hardware and software configurations and possibly even different operating systems . the present invention provides a system and a method to allow data captured in a source computer system to be replayed in the remote reference system so as to recreate a captured event or analyze performance .