On 08/19/2009 01:31 AM, duck wrote:
I have never got this to work reliably. Occasionally I can get as far as
making a debugger connection at boot-time, IIRC, but have never managed to
use the deugger at all. You always seem to end up in some
debugger-debuggee deadlock.
It works.
However, getting into debug session is real pain in the neck.
Especially for the first time.
I suspect that the serial link simulation is imperfect enough (lost
interrupts and thus lost characters?) that you are out of luck for
serial-link-based remote debugging, even though userland serial comms,
e.g. using Hyperterm, seem to work fine.
I was able to get debugging working, a year or two ago, under QEMU using
the MIN_CYCLE_COUNT patch (I made a command line option called '-mcc' to
allow this to be tuned at run-time) but IIRC this patch is irrelevant when
KVM is used.
Can anyone suggest a KVM patch which might help, even if it slows the
debuggee VM down?
Pity SoftICE got killed off :-)
You could try http://www.sysersoft.com/ for a one-PC Windows kernel
debugging solution. Seems to be a small Beijing software house which just
sells on-line. Their product is not free, though there is a free trial.
(I haven't tried it under KVM, though they advertise that it works
under VxWxxx [censored]).
Maybe we can use vm kd extensions project
(http://www.nynaeve.net/?page_id=168)
as a starting point and fit it into kvm. AFAIK, VmWare and Virtual Box
have done it already.
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