Re: GRUB, bochs, debugging, and OSKit

• To: <Kevin.VanHorn@ndsu.NoDak.edu>
• Subject: Re: GRUB, bochs, debugging, and OSKit
• From: John Regehr <regehr@cs.utah.edu>
• Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 11:09:00 -0700 (MST)
• cc: <oskit-users@fast.cs.utah.edu>
• In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0110252221500.1405-100000@speech.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>
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> 2. I'm looking into using OSKit + bochs for an OS course.  (The Plex86 web
> site says, "Warning: experimental code intended for developers only," so
> I'm not too keen on trying to use Plex86 for a virtual machine.)  I'd like
> to make sure that my students have reasonable debugging facilities.  I
> know that OSKit has hooks for debugging over a serial line; does anyone
> know if it is possible to make use of this under the bochs emulator?
> (And if so, how?)

There's a little info here about debugging an OS with Bochs:

  http://kos.enix.org/~d2/snapshots/kos_current/doc/testingen-html/

One cool feature that Bochs has now is multiprocessor emulation.

I've only played with Bochs, and never used it for debugging.  VMWare is
a lot easier to install/configure, and it's a lot faster.

John

• GRUB, bochs, debugging, and OSKit
• From: "Kevin S. Van Horn" <Kevin_VanHorn@ndsu.NoDak.edu>

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