Re: Using KVM for Windows kernel debugging

2009-08-19 Thread Vadim Rozenfeld
On 08/19/2009 01:31 AM, duck wrote: I have never got this to work reliably. Occasionally I can get as far as making a debugger connection at boot-time, IIRC, but have never managed to use the deugger at all. You always seem to end up in some debugger-debuggee deadlock. It works. However,

Re: Using KVM for Windows kernel debugging

2009-08-18 Thread Vadim Rozenfeld
On 08/18/2009 01:52 PM, Tom Parkin wrote: 2009/8/17 Tom Parkintom.par...@gmail.com: Thanks so much for that, Yan, it looks exactly like what I need. I'll give it a try when I'm back in the office. Having given it a try, I'm having some troubles which I hope someone may be able to

Re: Using KVM for Windows kernel debugging

2009-08-18 Thread Tom Parkin
Hi Vadim, 2009/8/18 Vadim Rozenfeld vroze...@redhat.com: Try to download symbols first. Thanks for the tip, it gets me a bit closer -- although still not fully up and running ! With the symbols installed, and the windbg symbol path set, the windbg process doesn't exit, and does print Connected

Re: Using KVM for Windows kernel debugging

2009-08-18 Thread Tom Parkin
Hi Yan, 2009/8/18 Yan Vugenfirer yvuge...@redhat.com: In case you don’t need to debug the boot process you could wait for the Windows to  start and only then start Windbg configure the communication options and hit break (ctrl+break) to initiate debug session. That would be fine; I have no

Re: Using KVM for Windows kernel debugging

2009-08-18 Thread Vadim Rozenfeld
On 08/18/2009 04:54 PM, Tom Parkin wrote: Hi Vadim, 2009/8/18 Vadim Rozenfeldvroze...@redhat.com: Try to download symbols first. Thanks for the tip, it gets me a bit closer -- although still not fully up and running ! With the symbols installed, and the windbg symbol path set, the

Re: Using KVM for Windows kernel debugging

2009-08-18 Thread Tom Parkin
2009/8/18 Vadim Rozenfeld vroze...@redhat.com: did you try /break switch in boot.ini? It's a new one to me. I've just given it a go and found no change in behavior, from which I deduce that the target machine isn't getting as far even as the HAL init (although this might be an incorrect reading

Re: Using KVM for Windows kernel debugging

2009-08-18 Thread duck
I have never got this to work reliably. Occasionally I can get as far as making a debugger connection at boot-time, IIRC, but have never managed to use the deugger at all. You always seem to end up in some debugger-debuggee deadlock. I suspect that the serial link simulation is imperfect

Re: Using KVM for Windows kernel debugging

2009-08-17 Thread Tom Parkin
2009/8/17 Tom Parkin tom.par...@gmail.com: Has anyone on the list got any experience of this kind of setup, or any suggestions that might help ? Sorry for the spam, but I forgot to mention that I found this mail in the archives which looks pertinent:

Re: Using KVM for Windows kernel debugging

2009-08-17 Thread Avi Kivity
(copying smintz) On 08/17/2009 06:16 PM, Tom Parkin wrote: 2009/8/17 Tom Parkintom.par...@gmail.com: Has anyone on the list got any experience of this kind of setup, or any suggestions that might help ? Sorry for the spam, but I forgot to mention that I found this mail in the

RE: Using KVM for Windows kernel debugging

2009-08-17 Thread Yan Vugenfirer
-Original Message- From: kvm-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:kvm-ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Tom Parkin Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 6:16 PM To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: tom.par...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Using KVM for Windows kernel debugging 2009/8/17 Tom Parkin tom.par

Re: Using KVM for Windows kernel debugging

2009-08-17 Thread Tom Parkin
] On Behalf Of Tom Parkin Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 6:16 PM To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: tom.par...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Using KVM for Windows kernel debugging 2009/8/17 Tom Parkin tom.par...@gmail.com: Has anyone on the list got any experience of this kind of setup, or any suggestions