[Qemu-devel] setting up breakpoints - kernel debugging help wit gdb in qemu-kvm

[Onkar <kernzap@gmail.com>]

I am running a linux guest like this - which I wish to debug - 
but the breakpoint gets set but I am not able to stop the guest 
execution at the set breakpoint - it just hangs after I do continue. 
Can you please provide me some clues - 

# ./qemu-system-x86_64 -m 2048 -smp 4 -vga std -vnc :5 -drive
file=/sda4/bin/disk/disk0.img,cache=writeback -S -s

# gdb
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The target architecture is assumed to be i386:x86-64:intel
(gdb) symbol-file /sda4/kvm/vmlinux
Reading symbols from /sda4/kvm/vmlinux...done.
(gdb) target remote :1234
Remote debugging using :1234
0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) b kmem_cache_alloc
Breakpoint 1 at 0xffffffff81121adb: file mm/slub.c, line 2375. (2
locations)
(gdb) c
Continuing.


Thanks, 
Onkar