Does anyone use Virtual-PC for a debugging environment

NTDEV
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Never tried it on VirtualBox. With VMWare, I just drop vminstall.exe on the
target, run it, and reboot. The vmmon application on the host senses when
the VM boots and launches WinDBG with the appropriate settings. It’s all
quite pleasant really.

The directions you have make the named pipe interface seem just fine though.

-scott

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“Mark Roddy” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
I’ve tried VKD twice now and gotten nowhere.

The latest effort was with virtualbox, where the basic requirements are to:
1) download the sources for virtualbox;
2) download the sources for virtualkd;
3) rebuild virtualkd with the headers from virtualbox;

or

4) pretend that some earlier version of virtualbox is uprev compatible with
the interface virtualkd is messing with.

I didn’t want a science project, I just wanted to connect a debugger to a
vm.

The named pipe interface on virtualpc works fine without building anything.

Mark Roddy

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Scott Noone wrote:

Use VirtualKD once and you’ll never be able to go back (even to 1394):

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I have to echo what Scott is saying. The latest build of VirtualKD with
VMWare is both painless and convenient. It beats the tar out of the
pipe/comport performance.

Dave Cattley

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Never tried it on VirtualBox. With VMWare, I just drop vminstall.exe on the
target, run it, and reboot. The vmmon application on the host senses when
the VM boots and launches WinDBG with the appropriate settings. It’s all
quite pleasant really.

The directions you have make the named pipe interface seem just fine though.

-scott

–
Scott Noone
Consulting Associate
OSR Open Systems Resources, Inc.
http://www.osronline.com

“Mark Roddy” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
I’ve tried VKD twice now and gotten nowhere.

The latest effort was with virtualbox, where the basic requirements are to:
1) download the sources for virtualbox;
2) download the sources for virtualkd;
3) rebuild virtualkd with the headers from virtualbox;

or

4) pretend that some earlier version of virtualbox is uprev compatible with
the interface virtualkd is messing with.

I didn’t want a science project, I just wanted to connect a debugger to a
vm.

The named pipe interface on virtualpc works fine without building anything.

Mark Roddy

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Scott Noone wrote:

Use VirtualKD once and you’ll never be able to go back (even to 1394):

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