reverse debugging news

reverse debugging news

[Michael Snyder]

Hey all, 

A friend just sent me these links.  Apparently VMWare is using gdb
to do reverse debugging.

We should get in touch with them, revive and sync those bits, 
and get them into the public gdb!

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GDB Server
Like Workstation, Fusion has a built-in GDB server. This allows you to 
debug the guest without having to run kdb or recompile your kernel (I 
think this is for Linux guests, or at least guests you can use GDB 
with). You will need a kernel with symbols for your distro and be 
familiar with how to use gdb. There is also untested support for 
record/replay, which lets you do interesting things like stepping 
backward through a program.

(from http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-1201)

Here's the guy at vmware who did it:
http://www.blogger.com/profile/11817787238843961916

as discussed here:
http://stackframe.blogspot.com/2007/09/application-debugging-with-recordreplay.html

More here:

http://stackframe.blogspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.html