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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
To: 陳韋任 <chenwj@iis.sinica.edu.tw>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] How to follow a child process created in the guest OS?
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:14:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120210081441.GA17878@stefanha-thinkpad.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120209103316.GA94562@cs.nctu.edu.tw>

On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 06:33:16PM +0800, 陳韋任 wrote:
>   The question is not so related to QEMU itself, but I want to give it a try.
> I am running a tiny OS on QEMU and debugging it with gdbstub. The tiny OS will
> fork process 1, 2, ... and so on. I want to follow the child process, but the
> GDB command `set follow-fork-mode child` doesn't work. This seems to be a bug
> or missing feature in GDB remote protocol. [1]
> 
>   Is there a way to do what I'm trying to do? Thanks!

I'm confused.  If you are running a system emulator with a guest OS
inside then GDB's process-level features are not available.  The QEMU
gdbstub gives you access at the system-level.  If you want to debug
guest processes, run gdb inside the guest.

Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-10  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-09 10:33 [Qemu-devel] How to follow a child process created in the guest OS? 陳韋任
2012-02-10  8:14 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2012-02-10 10:26   ` 陳韋任
2012-02-10 23:48     ` Paul Brook
2012-02-10 23:54       ` 陳韋任
2012-02-11  0:42     ` Andreas Färber
2012-02-11  0:50       ` malc
2012-02-12  3:00         ` Wei Yang
2012-02-13 10:49           ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-02-10  9:24 ` Max Filippov

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