From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
Cc: roland <devzero@web.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VMWare Workstation 6 for debugging Linux Kernel (!)
Date: 20 Apr 2007 12:27:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73r6qf49zc.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1177058522.14404.132.camel@frg-rhel40-em64t-04>
Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.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.
AMD SimNow! and Virtutech Simics can do it too. But great the Vmware catches up.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-20 9:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-19 22:46 VMWare Workstation 6 for debugging Linux Kernel (!) roland
2007-04-20 7:16 ` albcamus
2007-04-20 8:42 ` Xavier Bestel
2007-04-20 10:27 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-04-20 11:21 ` Petr Vandrovec
2007-04-20 11:44 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-20 12:38 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-20 11:21 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-20 11:45 ` Avi Kivity
2007-04-20 11:50 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-20 11:52 ` Avi Kivity
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2007-04-20 10:58 devzero
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