Tips on remote debugging for filesystem code
Kirk McKusick
mckusick at mckusick.com
Thu Aug 24 18:26:19 UTC 2017
> To: Aijaz Baig <aijazbaig1 at gmail.com>, freebsd-fs at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Tips on remote debugging for filesystem code
> From: Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org>
> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 16:24:50 +0800
>
> On 24/8/17 1:40 pm, Aijaz Baig wrote:
>
>> ...
>> How do you guys normally do it? Keen to hear tips and best practices
>
> I have had more success recently using BHype to make a Virtual FreeBSD
> machine and connecting to it using the built-in gdb interface.
>
> Firstly it is easier than a serial interface and secondly you don't
> need two machines.
Is there documentation that describes how to do this? I have been using
a patched up set of scripts provided by John Baldwin a couple of years
ago to use kgdb with a bhyve VM. But if there is an existing way to do
it now, I would rather switch to it.
Kirk McKusick
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