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On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:28:15 -0500, Kurt Lidl <lidl@pix.net> wrote:

> Isn't this what you want?
>
> http://stackframe.blogspot.com/2007/04/debugging-linux-kernels-with.html
>
> -Kurt

Interesting -- it looks like that's an option on ESX as well. The only  
question is: what do I do with that? It's going to give me the debugging  
entire VM, not the kernel inside. Without being a VMWare developer I  
imagine its data will be a bit useless :-(