From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 31 10:31:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 528B637B693 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:31:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA30865; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:31:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:31:31 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200003311831.KAA30865@apollo.backplane.com> To: Julian Elischer Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Neat kernel development environment. References: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :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 :.. : :Thus no need to have that second machine for debugging.. ::-) :It's amazing to see on the same X screen, :1/ The xserver of the virtual BSD box :2/ the console in another window, (which can be sent into DDB if needed) :3/ a 3rd window running xxgdb, single stepping the kernel with source :and setting breakpoints etc. :4/ some othe rwindow on the host system, completely unaffected. : :I'll try get a screenshot. :(And yes I did buy a vmware licence) : :Julian I can just see all the coolness seeping out. Now guys, we have to have as a goal something at least as comparable as what IBM did with one of their mainframes. Oh, say, lets shoot for being able to run 4000 copies or so of linux under VMWare on FreeBSD :-) Once we fix the deadlocks, that is. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message