From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 31 10:15:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06CA837B69E for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:15:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ambrisko@whistle.com) Received: from whistle.com (crab.whistle.com [207.76.205.112]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA48258; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:15:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by whistle.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA15514; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:14:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ambrisko) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <200003311814.KAA15514@whistle.com> Subject: Re: Neat kernel development environment. In-Reply-To: from Julian Elischer at "Mar 31, 2000 10:00:40 am" To: Julian Elischer Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:14:57 -0800 (PST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julian Elischer writes: | | I have just managed to get the following going: | | By writing a device driver that is two terminals back-to-back, | and configuring vmware to map one of the virtual ttys over the | 'null-modem' device, and then running a kernel configured with the console | on com1 and the gdb port on com2, (in the virtual machine in vmware) | I can on a single machine run a test system, allow it to run the vmware X | server, and at the same time have access to the console, AND be able to | single step it under xxdgb or DDB depending on the task. FYI, via the latest Etherboot port that was commited you can netboot a vmware machine. Could you post your null-modem device? ... it saves on serial ports. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message