linux-kernel - Re: VMWare Workstation 6 for debugging Linux Kernel (!)

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Date:	Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:50:16 +1000
From:	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...el.suspend2.net>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@...e.fr>, roland <devzero@....de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VMWare Workstation 6 for debugging Linux Kernel (!)

Hi.

On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 14:45 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> 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).

I was meaning that vmware wasn't working, but it is now - I was trying a
64 host and client, and needed to know both the different line in the
config file and the different port number.

Regards,

Nigel

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