On various occasions, I’ve received inquiries about how to install and start using WinDbg. For this reason, in this post, I’m going to show you how to configure an environment with WinDbg and virtual ...

I feel I need to run the kernel debugger on a minidump to see if I can confirm whether or not software vended by a certain antivirus company is implicated in spontaneous rebooting incidents on this ...

The Linux kernel debugger (KDB) allows you to debug the Linux kernel. This aptly named tool is essentially a patch to the kernel code that lets hackers access kernel memory and data structures. One of ...

A built-in debugger for the kernel is one missing feature that some enterprise vendors have added. Will the mainstream kernel be able to agree on an approach to this surprisingly contentious issue?

Novell has introduced a project to help find problems in the inner workings of Linux. Novell’s Clyde Griffin announced the Novell Linux Kernel Debuggerin June on the Linux kernel mailing list. “At ...

Often the pivotal factor in achieving development timetables comes down to one's efficiency in finding and fixing bugs. Debugging inside the Linux kernel can be quite challenging. No matter how you ...

Linus is famously against the use of interactive debuggers on the kernel, but many developers use them anyway. Debugging a running kernel is a little harder than working with a typical application, ...

As with many Linux-related topics, the issue of using debuggers to troubleshoot the Linux kernel is not only technical--it's political. Linux is being mostly developed on the x86 platform, which does ...

I'd like to try to explain NLKD and how it differs from what's currently available. I'm not an NLKD developer, but I work with them and know the tool. Here are some differentiating (to my knowledge) ...