From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Jul 1 16:19:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22FCD37B400 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:19:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utility.clubscholarship.com (utility.clubscholarship.com [198.78.70.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF97E43E0A for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:19:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@utility.clubscholarship.com) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by utility.clubscholarship.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g61NHq857864; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:17:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@utility.clubscholarship.com) Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:17:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Patrick Thomas To: Julian Elischer Cc: Subject: Re: crash debugs, etc., possible on a freebsd vmware guest ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020701161653.C79469-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org thank you for this useful information - I will probably be trying this tonight. Totally unrelated - has anyone gotten the FreeBSD version of vmware running on Darwin on a powerPC ? If not, comments on the current viability of such a setup ? thanks, PT On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: > 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