Tips on remote debugging for filesystem code

[Bakul Shah]

On Sun, 27 Aug 2017 22:04:41 +0530 Aijaz Baig <aijazbaig1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the heads up Kirk. Unfortunately I just ran into a roadblock
> with Bhyve since I am running FreeBSD on core2duo which "officially"
> doesn't support Bhyve yet.
> 
> Is there some other way I can get this to work? I have installed FreeBSD
> bare metal now if it helps.

Years ago I used to use qemu + its GDB support. It was far
more convenient than debugging over a serial like. Haven't
used qemu recently but it used to run on pretty much any x86
machine.  I found a copy of my message online:

http://maxim.int.ru/tricks/qemu.txt

Also see

https://wiki.freebsd.org/qemu