Remote Kernel Debugging using TCP/IP on Physical System

[bbusacker]

I get how to remote kernel debug a VM but I want to setup a physical machine to do remote kernel debugging but can’t figure out how that is meant to be done with VisualKernel or is it not really supported yet. I couldn’t find any tutorials or help that shows how to do this other than via a physical serial port. I would be interested in mapping a serial port to a tcp/ip port as well as how to configure gdbserver for kernel debugging. Thanks.

[support]

Hi,

How do you want to map a physical serial port to a tcp/ip port? Do you mean using a separate Linux machine connected to your target machine via a serial port and the development machine via ethernet?

[bbusacker]

OK, so I’m moving forward trying to remote debug on two separate physical systems with a USB to serial cable and get the target machine to stop responding so I know some communication is occurring
My target is CentOS 6.5 64-bit. Here are my questions:

1. Should I be using a null modem rather than a straight serial cable.
2. my target serial device gets instantiated as /dev/ttyUSB0 should I enter ttyUSB0 in the COM port on Linux machine text box?
3. Should I be able to communicate between the two machines using a terminal emulator on both ends?

Any help would be appreciated. Let me know what logs I can post here to help. Thanks.

[support]

Hi,

We’ve just added support for debugging over network to VisualKernel 1.1. Have a look at the following tutorial: http://visualkernel.com/tutorials/network/

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