From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>, roland <devzero@web.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VMWare Workstation 6 for debugging Linux Kernel (!)
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:45:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4628A7E3.5030908@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p73r6qf49zc.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
Andi Kleen wrote:
> Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr> writes:
>
>
>> On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 00:46 +0200, roland wrote:
>>
>>
>>> We just quietly added an exciting feature to Workstation 6.0. I believe it
>>> will make WS6 a great tool for Linux kernel development. You can now debug
>>> kernel of Linux VM with gdb running on the Host without changing anything in
>>> the Guest VM. No kdb, no recompiling and no need for second machine. All you
>>> need is a single line in VM's configuration file.
>>>
>> I think qemu has the exact same feature.
>>
>
> It doesn't seem to work for x86-64 there though.
>
kvm's qemu has a patch that allows qemu to be an x86_64 gdbserver (with
or without kvm).
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-20 11:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-19 22:46 roland
2007-04-20 7:16 ` albcamus
2007-04-20 8:42 ` Xavier Bestel
2007-04-20 10:27 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-20 11:21 ` Petr Vandrovec
2007-04-20 11:44 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-20 12:38 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-20 11:21 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-20 11:45 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2007-04-20 11:50 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-20 11:52 ` Avi Kivity
2007-04-20 10:58 devzero
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