From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kip Macy Subject: Re: follow-up to guest debug support patches Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 12:06:32 -0800 Message-ID: References: <20050312194634.GB7644@cl.cam.ac.uk> Reply-To: Kip Macy Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20050312194634.GB7644@cl.cam.ac.uk> Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Christian Limpach Cc: Ian Pratt , xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Keir Fraser Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org > They should get undone automatically, but if the domain crashes, it > might not get cleaned up until the debugging process exits -- which > might very well be what you want. Yes it is. > Yes, the NetBSD in-kernel debugger allows you to set breakpoints > in the kernel. The FreeBSD one should as well? I'd prefer if Probably. I find DDB so crufty that I've only ever used it after a crash. > it was possible to set an EDF flag on the domain from dom0 which > controls the behaviour. I guess you want the pausing behaviour all > the time such that if a domain causes a fault, it is paused and then I had thought about this, but it seemed clumsy. For some reason it hadn't occurred to me to make it a guest boot-time option. Thanks. > highly motivated, you could also extend the tools ;-) Given the time I'll do that. > Thanks! I think this is an excellent feature to have! And thank you for the excellent comments and suggestions. -Kip ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click