[vbox-dev] Cannot debug linux kernel with VBox 4.3+

Ramshankar ramshankar.venkataraman at oracle.com
Fri Jan 10 14:19:12 GMT 2014


On 08/01/14 06:46, Aaron Lewis wrote:
> Hi Frank,
>
> The CPU model is:  Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2450M CPU @ 2.50GHz
>
> And yes I have VT-x enabled.
>
> The VBox.log is uploaded here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6713174/

Does disable Nested Paging for the VM mitigate/workaround the issue?

Regards,
Ram.

>
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Frank Mehnert <frank.mehnert at oracle.com> wrote:
>> AAron,
>>
>> On Tuesday 31 December 2013 08:29:44 Aaron Lewis wrote:
>>> I couldn't use kgdb to debug a linux kernel running inside VBox.
>>>
>>> When the kernel crashes, VBox pops up a dialog asking me either to
>>> Ignore the error or Close the VM. The former does no work, and the
>>> whole thing freezes up
>>
>> do you have VT-x / AMD-V enabled for this VM and is this feature
>> really used (VBox.log file)? And are you on Intel or on AMD? I know
>> there were some VMM changes / fixes regarding debug exceptions.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Frank
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