Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

Andriy Gapon avg at FreeBSD.org
Thu Sep 13 21:14:10 UTC 2012


on 13/09/2012 22:57 Mark Felder said the following:
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:28:15 -0500, Kurt Lidl <lidl at pix.net> wrote:
> 
>> Isn't this what you want?
>>
>> http://stackframe.blogspot.com/2007/04/debugging-linux-kernels-with.html
>>
>> -Kurt
> 
> Interesting -- it looks like that's an option on ESX as well. The only question
> is: what do I do with that? It's going to give me the debugging entire VM, not
> the kernel inside. Without being a VMWare developer I imagine its data will be a
> bit useless :-(

No, gdb stub is for debugging what is running inside the VM.
E.g. look here for an example of how to do that with qemu:
http://andriygapon.wikispaces.com/QemuSetup
VMWare with gdb stub enabled should not be any different.

-- 
Andriy Gapon


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