Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 20:39:04 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Neat kernel development environment. Message-ID: <5250.954527944@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:31:31 -0800." <200003311831.KAA30865@apollo.backplane.com>
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In message <200003311831.KAA30865@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon writes: >:I have just managed to get the following going: >: >:By writing a device driver that is two terminals back-to-back, >:and configuring vmware to map one of the virtual ttys over the >:.. >: >:Thus no need to have that second machine for debugging.. >::-) >:It's amazing to see on the same X screen, >:1/ The xserver of the virtual BSD box >:2/ the console in another window, (which can be sent into DDB if needed) >:3/ a 3rd window running xxgdb, single stepping the kernel with source >:and setting breakpoints etc. >:4/ some othe rwindow on the host system, completely unaffected. >: >:I'll try get a screenshot. >:(And yes I did buy a vmware licence) >: >:Julian > > I can just see all the coolness seeping out. Now guys, we have to > have as a goal something at least as comparable as what IBM did > with one of their mainframes. Oh, say, lets shoot for being able to > run 4000 copies or so of linux under VMWare on FreeBSD :-) > > Once we fix the deadlocks, that is. We don't need VMWare really, we can just run N jails... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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