"Amit S. Kale" <amitkale@emsyssoft.com> writes: > On Tuesday 16 Mar 2004 8:44 pm, Anticipating a Reply wrote: >> Hi , >> >> Is it possible to run Kgdb with a loop back >> serial cable on a single machine , i.e. >> using one serial port to transmit data and >> the other port to recieve on the same machine . > > Nope. You need two machines because target machine doesn't run > during the time control is with gdb. It used to be possible, though, to use kgdb between two VMWare machines, all on one physical host. I did that with 2.5.73 on x86 by configuring the virtual machines' virtual serial ports to go through a special file on the physical host. -- --Ed L Cashin | PGP public key: ecashin@uga.edu | http://noserose.net/e/pgp/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
