From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Jul 1 17: 0:24 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 7FF1D37B400 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 17:00:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C4E243E0A for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 17:00:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.206.8]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020702000015.WRRN6023.sccrmhc02.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org>; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 00:00:15 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA93487; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:58:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:58:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Patrick Thomas Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: crash debugs, etc., possible on a freebsd vmware guest ? In-Reply-To: <20020701161653.C79469-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> Message-ID: 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 On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Patrick Thomas wrote: > > 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 ? vmware relies on the fact that teh i386 can "partly" virtualise a PC.. it does the rest (what the hardware can not do) by software. the power PC can not do i386 instructions so it's a dead-end unless you were to write it from scratch to emulate a virtual Power PC. there are a couple of PC emulators on the MAC Including one free one. > > 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