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

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Date:	Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:52:18 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...o.co.il>
To:	nigel@...el.suspend2.net
Cc:	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>, 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 (!)

Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> 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.
>   

Andi was talking about qemu, not VMware, I believe.

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