Julian Elischer writes:
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| 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
| 'null-modem' device, and then running a kernel configured with the console
| on com1 and the gdb port on com2, (in the virtual machine in vmware)
| I can on a single machine run a test system, allow it to run the vmware X
| server, and at the same time have access to the console, AND be able to
| single step it under xxdgb or DDB depending on the task.
FYI, via the latest Etherboot port that was commited you can netboot a
vmware machine. Could you post your null-modem device? ... it saves on
serial ports.
Doug A.
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