I have successfully installed and booted Vista Ultimate in Xen (3.1.2, on Fedora Core 8). However, I want to use a kernel debugger (windbg) which requires me to boot Vista in debug mode. To boot into debug mode, I hold F8 and select the appropriate option. This, however, doesn''t work. Vista doesn''t boot and all I get is a big black window. I''ve also tried modifying the boot options with the command "bcdedit -debug on" but that doesn''t work either. I''m pretty new to Xen so I''m not sure what output/files would be useful to include here. Thanks for any help! -matthew _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
I think in Windows XP, when you''re in debug mode, Windows waits for the remote debugger to connect before continuing the boot process. So maybe your remote debugger did not connect yet? As you may know, you need to enable serial driver in HVM domU config file, then forward this console to a TCP port (possibly), then connect to this TCP port from your remote debugging machine, then use another software there to show this tcp connection as a serial port to Windows. Then you''ll connect to this serial port from Windbg and you can type (g) to continue the boot process on your DomU. Emre On Jan 23, 2008 9:48 PM, Matthew Donovan <matthew@atc-nycorp.com> wrote:> I have successfully installed and booted Vista Ultimate in Xen (3.1.2, on > Fedora Core 8). However, I want to use a kernel debugger (windbg) which > requires me to boot Vista in debug mode. To boot into debug mode, I hold > F8 > and select the appropriate option. This, however, doesn''t work. Vista > doesn''t boot and all I get is a big black window. > > I''ve also tried modifying the boot options with the command "bcdedit > -debug > on" but that doesn''t work either. > > I''m pretty new to Xen so I''m not sure what output/files would be useful to > include here. > > Thanks for any help! > -matthew > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >-- Emre Erenoglu erenoglu@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
I''ll give that a try. I don''t know if that''s it, though. I have another computer that has Vista installed and when I boot that one in debug mode it doesn''t wait for a remote debugger. -matthew -----Original Message----- From: Emre Erenoglu [mailto:erenoglu@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 6:52 PM To: Matthew Donovan Cc: xen-users@lists.xensource.com Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Booting Vista in Debug Mode I think in Windows XP, when you''re in debug mode, Windows waits for the remote debugger to connect before continuing the boot process. So maybe your remote debugger did not connect yet? As you may know, you need to enable serial driver in HVM domU config file, then forward this console to a TCP port (possibly), then connect to this TCP port from your remote debugging machine, then use another software there to show this tcp connection as a serial port to Windows. Then you''ll connect to this serial port from Windbg and you can type (g) to continue the boot process on your DomU. Emre On Jan 23, 2008 9:48 PM, Matthew Donovan <matthew@atc-nycorp.com> wrote: I have successfully installed and booted Vista Ultimate in Xen (3.1.2, on Fedora Core 8). However, I want to use a kernel debugger (windbg) which requires me to boot Vista in debug mode. To boot into debug mode, I hold F8 and select the appropriate option. This, however, doesn''t work. Vista doesn''t boot and all I get is a big black window. I''ve also tried modifying the boot options with the command "bcdedit -debug on" but that doesn''t work either. I''m pretty new to Xen so I''m not sure what output/files would be useful to include here. Thanks for any help! -matthew _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users -- Emre Erenoglu erenoglu@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users