Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eespo...@redhat.com> --- docs/devel/testing.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/devel/testing.rst b/docs/devel/testing.rst index b7e2370e7e..2ee77a057b 100644 --- a/docs/devel/testing.rst +++ b/docs/devel/testing.rst @@ -229,6 +229,13 @@ Debugging a test case QEMU iotests offers some options to debug a failing test, that can be given as options to the ``check`` script: +* ``-gdb`` wraps ``gdbsever`` to the QEMU binary, + so it is possible to connect to it via gdb. + One way to do so is via ``gdb -iex "target remote $GDB_QEMU"`` + The default address is ``localhost:12345``, and can be changed + by setting the ``$GDB_QEMU`` environmental variable. + The final command line will be ``gdbserver $GDB_QEMU $QEMU ...`` + * ``-d`` (debug) just increases the logging verbosity, showing for example the QMP commands and answers. -- 2.30.2
