"Debuggee not connected" when attempting kernel debug on Hyper-V Server

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This message is a duplicate of this:
http://www.osronline.com/showthread.cfm?link=244731

sorry, but I don't know where to put it exactly. WINDBG looks most obvious, but I've seen similar threads in ntdev.

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I've been trying this for almost a week. Can anybody PLEASE help me?

I'm having a Windows 8 host computer, and the target computer is in a VMWare
virtual machine, running Hyper-V Server 2012.
I read lots of articles of how it's done, but none worked.
I don't have Windows 8 Pro, so I can't use Hyper-V Manager.

This is what I did (beginning with installation on VM):

  1. I installed install Hyper-V Server on VM
  2. I set password - identical to host
  3. I set computer name to something simpler (HVSERVER)
  4. I installed VMWare tools.
  5. I enable File Sharing on Hyper-V Server 2012:?
    netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="File and Printer Sharing" new
    enable=Yes
  6. I download HVRemote.wsf & copy on the host machine in
    C:\HVRemote\HVRemote.wsf
  7. sconfig: configured remote management: enable & ping: enable
  8. Added local Admin: user & password identical to host computer
  9. I logged on with new user, and get access to folder of host computer:
    net use x: \HOST-COMPUTER-NAME\Users<host_user_name>\VM_SaredFolder -
    VM_SharedFolder previously created by you on host computer.
    10. copied hvremote.wsf from host's VM_SharedFolder into guest's C:\HVREMOTE
    folder.
    11. called cscript hvremote.wsf /add:Zenith (might have been redundant(
    12. set guest ip as static
    13. added hostname to the hosts file: C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc
    14. checked ping from host to guest and vice-versa - it worked.
    15. on host machine:
    cscript hvremote.wsf /AnonDCOM:grant
    16. made a .bat script in host machine, with the content:
    "
    bcdedit /set dbgtransport kdhvcom.dll?
    bcdedit /dbgsettings serial DEBUGPORT:1 BAUDRATE:115200
    bcdedit /debug on?
    bcdedit -set testsigning on

    bcdedit /hypervisorsettings serial DEBUGPORT:1 BAUDRATE:115200
    bcdedit /set hypervisordebug on?
    bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto
    "

    copied it into the target machine, and ran it.
    17. restarted guest computer (Hyper-V machine)
    ----------

    The virtual machine in VMWare is configured this way:
    - removed the printer (was using a serial port, and was thinking it could
    conflict with my serial port COM1)
    - network: NAT / VMnet9(NAT).
    - serial port: pipename?\.\pipe\com_1, "this end is the server", "the other end
    is an application" (My Win8 is not running on a VM)

    In the host computer (Win8), I have set in the beginning the COM1 to the baud
    rate 115200

    VS / WinDBG setting:
    Kernel Mode: Serial, baudrate 115200, pipe checked, reconnect checked, pipe
    name?\.\pipe\com_1, target port com1

    With WinDBG, it says "debuggee not connected", and breaking does not work
    In VS, it's waiting to connect, and breaking still does not work.

    CAN ANYBODY PLEASE HELP ME??
    I don't know what else to do, or try.</host_user_name>