RE: VMWare 4.0 and debugger compatibility (or lack thereo f)

Didn’t test SMP yet. Not even the SoftIce remote control feature
works… refuses to connect during the ‘Authentication’ phase (though
I’ll try to debug this further).

  • Nicholas Ryan

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Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 8:05 PM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] RE: VMWare 4.0 and debugger compatibility
(or lack thereo f)

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> Verdict? Not as good as I hoped. They’ve fixed the long-standing
> incompatibility between VMWare and SoftIce on the HOST machine,
>
Seems good. What about SMP machines?

> but
> SoftIce does not work in any shape or form on the GUEST machine (a
> step BACKWARDS from previous versions, which supported at least VGA
> mode). I can produce nothing more than a machine lockup when the
> debugger is invoked.
>
Have you tried headless mode and remote control? It worked
for me in the past.

I’ll try it when have some time…

Best regards,

Michal Vodicka
STMicroelectronics Design and Application s.r.o.
[michal.vodicka@st.com, http:://www.st.com]


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