Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:58:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Patrick Thomas <root@utility.clubscholarship.com> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: crash debugs, etc., possible on a freebsd vmware guest ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207011655410.91887-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20020701161653.C79469-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com>
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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
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