Re: Neat kernel development environment.

2000-04-05 Thread John LoVerso
This is the same way that OS servers under Mach3 were developed and debugged! John To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Neat kernel development environment.

2000-04-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 04:32:36AM +1000, Matthew Dillon wrote: >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 copie

Re: Neat kernel development environment.

2000-03-31 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Poul-Henning Kamp writes: | In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Julian |El | ischer writes: | | >Oh? can you run a kernel in a jail for debugging? | | No, not quite yet, but what IBM bragged about the 41k linuxes for | was for what jails do for you. Nope not quite. Since you could actually crash

Re: Neat kernel development environment.

2000-03-31 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Julian El ischer writes: >Oh? can you run a kernel in a jail for debugging? No, not quite yet, but what IBM bragged about the 41k linuxes for was for what jails do for you. Poul-Henning >That's what I'm using it for.. >(debugging kernel code.. I only have one ma

Re: Neat kernel development environment.

2000-03-31 Thread Julian Elischer
Oh? can you run a kernel in a jail for debugging? That's what I'm using it for.. (debugging kernel code.. I only have one machine here.) On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >run 4000 copies or so of linux under VMWare on FreeBSD :-) Unfortunatly you can only run one vmware at a

Re: Neat kernel development environment.

2000-03-31 Thread Julian Elischer
I'll put the device driver on http://www.freebsd.org/~julian/ but it needs teh eyes of someone who's really at home in the tty system to look at it. I got kinda confused half way through hacking it (from the pty driver) and it shows. basically each pair of minor numbers is a pair and are connecte

Re: Neat kernel development environment.

2000-03-31 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Dillon 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 >:.. >: >:Thus no need to have that second machine for debug

Re: Neat kernel development environment.

2000-03-31 Thread Matthew Dillon
: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

Re: Neat kernel development environment.

2000-03-31 Thread Doug Ambrisko
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 a

Neat kernel development environment.

2000-03-31 Thread Julian Elischer
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 virtu