Hi Vadim, 2009/8/18 Vadim Rozenfeld <vrozenfe@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Try to download symbols first. Thanks for the tip, it gets me a bit closer -- although still not fully up and running ! With the symbols installed, and the windbg symbol path set, the windbg process doesn't exit, and does print "Connected to Windows XP ..." (although the window status bar still reports "Debuggee not connected"). However, other than that I have similar behavior as previously reported -- the target VM hangs on a black screen chewing CPU, and in time the windbg process starts reporting "GetContextState failed...". Furthermore, I tried using kd rather than windbg to attempt to connect to the target machine: kd.exe -y <my-symbols> -k <comport spec> I get different errors from kd: "Unable to read head of debugger data list, Win32 error 0n56" Tom -- Tom Parkin www.thhp.org.uk The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank /Rossetti/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html