Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:14:57 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Neat kernel development environment. Message-ID: <200003311814.KAA15514@whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003310846530.23191-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> from Julian Elischer at "Mar 31, 2000 10:00:40 am"
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Julian Elischer writes: | | I have just managed to get the following going: | | By writing a device driver that is two terminals back-to-back, | and configuring vmware to map one of the virtual ttys over the | 'null-modem' device, and then running a kernel configured with the console | on com1 and the gdb port on com2, (in the virtual machine in vmware) | I can on a single machine run a test system, allow it to run the vmware X | server, and at the same time have access to the console, AND be able to | single step it under xxdgb or DDB depending on the task. FYI, via the latest Etherboot port that was commited you can netboot a vmware machine. Could you post your null-modem device? ... it saves on serial ports. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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