Anyone fancy trying to reproduce a qemu-system-ppc64 bug?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:02:25PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Actually what is happening is that you're attaching gdb to the guest
> (not to qemu itself), and you can find out things about the guest such
> as stack traces through the kernel.  That could be useful, so I'm
> going to try it too.

I should note that gdb support only works if the host and guest are
the same, so this will only work on ppc64 host (unless you have some
sort of cross-built gdb).

> You can also edit the appliance/root init script.  appliance/root is
> an ext2 image, so you can loop-back mount it (or use libguestfs) to
> edit that script so it runs whatever you want.

The script is called /init within the root image, in case that was not
clear.

Rich.

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