Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to remotely debug the Linux kernel running under VMWare (and if so, if there's a way to do it in Windows since linux kind of scares me...). Both are x86. I know VMWare has support for this (I saw a post about remote debugging via gdb), but if there was a way to do it from Windows (i.e. Eclipse CDT or something) that'd be awesome.
Thanks! -Robert
You're not going to debug the Linux kernel (particularly remotely) using anything but gdb with { kdb | kgdb } extensions in-kernel, unless you write your own debug hooks.
According to Linus, he would prefer if you do not use a kernel debugger, even on Linux. Good luck getting one to work from Windows :)
Granted, this posting is from several years ago. Maybe he has changed his mind since then???
There's a thread where someone got 95% of the way here: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/236251. The one part he's missing is that the source files can't be found, but CDT supports setting a source path different from the symbol file. A bit of messing around and it seems to be working (i.e. I can set breakpoints, see the entire address space, etc.)
I would recommend debugging one Linux VM from another linux VM, if you only have one machine running Windows available.
You're going to have enough difficulty just getting that working, without throwing in something that is as unsupported and untested as what you're currently asking for.