Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:02:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Patrick Thomas <root@utility.clubscholarship.com> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: crash debugs, etc., possible on a freebsd vmware guest ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207011458470.91887-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20020701144220.D79469-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com>
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Yes it works well.. I hav edon that in th e past.. in fact if you use the nullmodem (nmdm) driver, you can connect the serial console of the virtual PC to 'tip' so you can read the output and save it. you can also connect it to gdb for remote debugging, all on the same machine.... see http://www.freebsd.org/~julian for more on the nullmodem driver including a screenshot of exactly what you are talking about.. there are some tricks to running -current in the VM however. You need to make a single patch because the VM is REALLY SLOW to emulate the instruction used in kernel mutexes if you re not a 386 (e.g if you are a pentium).. the workaround is to tell the kernel build process that you are building for a 386 or a 586 (include both otions) On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Patrick Thomas wrote: > > Hello, > > I would like to run freebsd-current in some of my vmware guest systems > (the host system is 4.6-RELEASE). > > Is it possible/reasonable to do things like induce crashes on these guests > (or lockups, panics, etc.) and then ctrl-alt-esc into the crash debugger ? > > Or am I missing something ? > > thanks, > > PT > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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