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From: Kurt Lidl <lidl@pix.net>
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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash
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On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:14:49AM -0500, Mark Felder wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:11:28 -0500, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > Just curious - does VMWare provide a remote debugger support (gdb stub)?
> 
> I'm not aware of one. What I have been able to successfully do is break  
> into the debugger during the hang but the info I've posted so far has not  
> been relevant to anyone. I'm hoping someone on the core team will  
> eventually be able to follow my guide and figure out what went wrong.

Isn't this what you want?

http://stackframe.blogspot.com/2007/04/debugging-linux-kernels-with.html

-Kurt