linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around Qemu to test kernels

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Message-ID: <4E54C179.2090608@siemens.com>
Date:	Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:16:41 +0200
From:	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kvm@...r.kernel.org list" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	qemu-devel Developers <qemu-devel@...gnu.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around Qemu to test kernels

On 2011-08-24 10:25, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 08/24/2011 01:16 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> +"
>> +echo "\
>> +Your guest is bound to the current foreground shell. To quit the guest,
>> +please use Ctrl-A x"
>> +echo "  Executing: $QEMU_BIN $QEMU_OPTIONS -append \"$KERNEL_APPEND\"
>> -smp $SMP"
>> +echo
>> +
>> +exec $QEMU_BIN $QEMU_OPTIONS -append "$KERNEL_APPEND -smp $SMP"
> 
> Would be nice to support launching gdb in a separate terminal with
> vmlinux already loaded, and already attached to qemu.

+ loading a python script into gdb to pull in module symbols. There are
a few implementations floating around (including my own one).

It would also be nice if one could append QEMU (note the capitalization
BTW) options to the script, maybe everything after a '--' separator.

Jan

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