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Hi
Do you want to help me to test on your computer? It is a GUI debugger for bochs, it can run on win/mac/linux.
Because different version of bochs will generate different output in different format, so I need someone to test it for me.

You can download peter-bochs from here http://code.google.com/p/peter-bochs/downloads/list

Here is the basic tutorial http://code.google.com/p/peter-bochs/wi ... uggerSetup

thanks
from Peter ([email protected])

BTW, still not amd64 support ?

Stanislav

I still think the name is hilarious, bochs is pronounced "box" and "peter" has alternative definitions.

..also, nobody likes Java.

Maybe not funny everywhere, but funny here.

Hi Stanislav, AMD64 support on next version. Now working very hard on supporting source level debug for linux kernel. After that I think bochs can attract many linux kernel guy to use it. In youtube, people debug linux kernel using print and text-mode kgdb. I think providing them a GUI debugger has a great value.

Now i use this http://code.google.com/p/peter-dwarf/ to read out all dwarf information from ELF kernel, still have some bug and dwarf specification is very hard to read for me, maybe because my english is back, i am hacking readelf command and trying to understand more from dwarf.

I mean "Peter" mean "Weak", so peter-bochs may means a weak bochs. Anyway people usually think peter is just a name.

thanks

mcheung63 wrote:Hi Stanislav, AMD64 support on next version. Now working very hard on supporting source level debug for linux kernel. After that I think bochs can attract many linux kernel guy to use it. In youtube, people debug linux kernel using print and text-mode kgdb. I think providing them a GUI debugger has a great value.

What I find really funny is that Linux developpers cannot single step from an application into kernel, in the application debugger, to trace syscalls. I've had that feature for quite a while now, including full source-level debugging in kernel. I asked some Linux gurus when this feature would come to Linux on a seminar, but got no answer.

The answer probably is that their debuggers use the same ancient approach to debugging as M$, and freeze application and kernel when the debugger gets control.

Did you really just necro an otherwise unrelated thread to shamelessly brag about your operating system? That's really rather pathetic, dude.

Brynet-Inc wrote:..also, nobody likes Java.