From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992764AbXDTJ3E (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 05:29:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992773AbXDTJ3D (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 05:29:03 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:59473 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992764AbXDTJ3B (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 05:29:01 -0400 To: Xavier Bestel Cc: roland , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VMWare Workstation 6 for debugging Linux Kernel (!) References: <03f401c782d4$95c323e0$eeeea8c0@aldipc> <1177058522.14404.132.camel@frg-rhel40-em64t-04> From: Andi Kleen Date: 20 Apr 2007 12:27:03 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1177058522.14404.132.camel@frg-rhel40-em64t-04> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Xavier Bestel 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