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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: GDB + KVM Debug
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:15:50 +0300
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On 09/16/2009 07:37 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> My target is x86 and we want to debug all real, prot. and 64 bit  mode.
>>      
> If your host is running 64 bit mode but your target uses less, you need
> an extra patch [1] to deal with gdb limitations and a lacking workaround
> in qemu(-kvm).
>    

Can you post this against qemu-kvm, with a switch to disable it in case 
it interferes with a theoretical fixed gdb?

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.