Debugging dump of 32-bit process captured on 64-bit machine

Question

I recently received a 64-bit crash dump from a customer.
Our processes are all 32-bit, but the customer's machine is running x64 Server 2008.

Visual Studio (both 2008 and 2010 Express) is telling me that I have to use the 64-bit version of MSVSMON.EXE, which I can't because I don't have a 64-bit machine.

I'm pretty sure there's a way to do this in WinDbg, but I find WinDbg to be hostile.

Is there any way to debug a 64-bit dump on a 32-bit machine, preferably using Visual Studio?

Answer 1

Is it Userdump or kernel dump? It looks like you got the system dump. If that is the case, then you can take help of !wow64exts extension on windbg and can root cause the problem.

Answer 2

Maybe this will help :
How to use Windbg to debug a dump of a 32bit .NET app running on a x64 machine
A look at the WoW64 layer in the debugger (Wow64Exts Debugger Extension )
How to debug WOW64 applications?