Re: GDB + KVM Debug

2009-10-23 Thread Jan Kiszka
: Jan Kiszka [mailto:jan.kis...@siemens.com] Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 1:36 AM To: Saksena, Abhishek Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GDB + KVM Debug Saksena, Abhishek wrote: I am using KVM-88. However I can't get gdb still working. I stared qemu with -s -S option and when I

Re: GDB + KVM Debug

2009-09-17 Thread Jan Kiszka
Saksena, Abhishek wrote: I am using KVM-88. However I can't get gdb still working. I stared qemu with -s -S option and when I try to connect gdb to it I get following error:- (gdb) target remote lochost:1234 lochost: unknown host lochost:1234: No such file or directory. (gdb) target

Re: GDB + KVM Debug

2009-09-16 Thread Jan Kiszka
Saksena, Abhishek wrote: Hi All, I see Qemu support GDB server that allows debugging kernels, boot loaders and others. Is this kind of support is available when KVM is enabled. Yes. For some reason the single stepping of instructions doesn't seem to work when KVM is in use. So what

Re: GDB + KVM Debug

2009-09-16 Thread Jan Kiszka
Saksena, Abhishek wrote: Thanks for the quick reply. What versions (kernel/kvm-kmod and qemu-kvm) are you using? What is your host, what your target architecture/operating mode (real mode, 32 bit prot. mode, 64 bit mode)? I am using KVM-74? Do I need to upgrade then? Yes, definitely.

Re: GDB + KVM Debug

2009-09-16 Thread Avi Kivity
On 09/16/2009 07:37 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: My target is x86 and we want to debug all real, prot. and 64 bit mode. If your host is running 64 bit mode but your target uses less, you need an extra patch [1] to deal with gdb limitations and a lacking workaround in qemu(-kvm). Can you

Re: GDB + KVM Debug

2009-09-16 Thread Jan Kiszka
Avi Kivity wrote: On 09/16/2009 07:37 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: My target is x86 and we want to debug all real, prot. and 64 bit mode. If your host is running 64 bit mode but your target uses less, you need an extra patch [1] to deal with gdb limitations and a lacking workaround in

Re: GDB + KVM Debug

2009-09-16 Thread Avi Kivity
On 09/16/2009 08:56 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: Can you post this against qemu-kvm, with a switch to disable it in case it interferes with a theoretical fixed gdb? Any fix for gdb will require some work on the qemu side as well to actually use it (we will have to transfer additional system

RE: GDB + KVM Debug

2009-09-16 Thread Saksena, Abhishek
(gdb) Any help will be appreciated! Thanks Abhishek -Original Message- From: Jan Kiszka [mailto:jan.kis...@siemens.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 9:37 AM To: Saksena, Abhishek Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GDB + KVM