Re: [Qemu-devel] WinDbg module

[Mihail Abakumov <mikhail.abakumov@ispras.ru>]

Stefan Weil писал 2017-04-12 20:55:
> Am 12.04.2017 um 18:30 schrieb Roman Kagan:
>> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 05:05:45PM +0300, Mihail Abakumov wrote:
>>> Hello.
>>> 
>>> We made the debugger module WinDbg (like GDB) for QEMU. This is the
>>> replacement of the remote stub in Windows kernel. Used for remote 
>>> Windows
>>> kernel debugging without debugging mode.
>>> 
>>> The latest build and instructions for the launch can be found here:
>>> https://github.com/ispras/qemu/releases/tag/v2.7.50-windbg
>>> 
>>> Currently only one ways to create a remote debugging connection is
>>> supported: using COM port with named pipe.
>>> 
>>> Should I prepare patches for inclusion in the master branch? Or is it 
>>> too
>>> specific module and it is not needed?
>> 
>> Please do!
>> 
>> Every once in a while dealing with a Windows guest problem I wished I
>> had this.  We at Virtuozzo looked into doing something like this but
>> never got around to.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Roman.
>> 
> 
> Hello Mihail,
> 
> from the previous answers you can see that there is a
> need for WinDbg support.
> 
> If you want to prepare patches for the official QEMU,
> you need signed commits from all developers who contributed
> (Dmitry Koltunov and you?).
> 
> Make also sure that no licensed code (for example extracts
> from MS header files) gets added.
> 
> See http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch for
> more hints.
> 
> As far as I saw, WinDbg support adds several thousand lines
> of code. Do you want to support that code after it has been
> included in QEMU?
> 
> Cheers
> Stefan

Yes, of course. We can support it.

Thanks,
Mihail Abakumov