Re: VMWare Workstation 6 for debugging Linux Kernel (!)

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Andi Kleen wrote:
> Xavier Bestel <[email protected]> writes:
>
>   
>> On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 00:46 +0200, roland wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> We just quietly added an exciting feature to Workstation 6.0. I believe it 
>>> will make WS6 a great tool for Linux kernel development. You can now debug 
>>> kernel of Linux VM with gdb running on the Host without changing anything in 
>>> the Guest VM. No kdb, no recompiling and no need for second machine. All you 
>>> need is a single line in VM's configuration file.
>>>       
>> I think qemu has the exact same feature.
>>     
>
> It doesn't seem to work for x86-64 there though.
>   

kvm's qemu has a patch that allows qemu to be an x86_64 gdbserver (with
or without kvm).

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