Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:38:29 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Subject: Re: vkernel & GSoC, some questions Message-ID: <200803240938.29781.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200803221520.m2MFK7TM059293@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200803221520.m2MFK7TM059293@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On Saturday 22 March 2008 11:20:07 am Oliver Fromme wrote: > M. Warner Losh wrote: > > In message: <200803191633.m2JGXuBt088272@lurza.secnetix.de> > > > > Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> writes: > > : The vkernel feature has certainly benefits, e.g. the fact > > : that you can attach to it with standard gdb and use the > > : familiar debugging facilities, which can attract more > > > > Can't you say qemu -s and attach gdb to that port as well? > > Good point. According to the manpage it would work, > but I've never tried it myself. (I'm rather careful > with the qemu manpage because it also contains a few > things that only work on Linux.) It works great and is how I debugged the recent GPT and BTX boot loader stuff. I haven't tried debugging the loader binary itself, but that should work. -- John Baldwin
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