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Message-id: <4628A7E3.5030908@qumranet.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:45:39 +0300
From: Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@...e.fr>, roland <devzero@....de>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VMWare Workstation 6 for debugging Linux Kernel (!)
Andi Kleen wrote:
> Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@...e.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).
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Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
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