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On Sep 13, 2012, at 5:13 PM, Andriy Gapon <[email protected]> wrote: > on 13/09/2012 22:57 Mark Felder said the following: >> On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:28:15 -0500, Kurt Lidl <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Isn't this what you want? >>> >>> http://stackframe.blogspot.com/2007/04/debugging-linux-kernels-with.html >>> >>> -Kurt >> >> Interesting -- it looks like that's an option on ESX as well. The only >> question >> is: what do I do with that? It's going to give me the debugging entire VM, >> not >> the kernel inside. Without being a VMWare developer I imagine its data will >> be a >> bit useless :-( > > No, gdb stub is for debugging what is running inside the VM. > E.g. look here for an example of how to do that with qemu: > http://andriygapon.wikispaces.com/QemuSetup > VMWare with gdb stub enabled should not be any different. > > -- > Andriy Gapon > _____________________________ Mark did you try changing the time counter choice sysctl from hpet to Acpi-safe/fast or tsc ? In esx 4.1 an newer using hpet timers causes issues for bsd and linux vms in some cases . The sysctl is kern.timecounter.choice . This sounds like another VMware issues I have seen and read about . See this post http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-32104.html --- Mark saad | [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
