Author: hexrays

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Just a quick note for interested parties: we prepared the new demo version of IDA Pro. The new demo includes the bochs debugger. The debugger is fully functional with just one limitation: it will become inactive after a number of commands. I prefer to tell you this in advance rather than this limitation to be discovered in the middle of a heavy debugging session ;)

Heres the download link:

http://www.hex-rays.com/idapro/idadowndemo.htm

Enjoy!

Author: hexrays

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We have already published short tutorial on Windows kernel debugging with IDA and VMWare on our site, but the debugging experience can still be improved.

VMWares GDB stub is very basic, it doesnt know anything about processes or threads (for Windows guests), so for anything high-level well need to do some extra work. We will show how to get the loaded module list and load symbols for all them using IDAPython.

Author: hexrays

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Since the number of debugger modules in IDA surpassed the magical number seven plus or minus two, we created a small table describing what is available and what is not:

http://www.hex-rays.com/idapro/debugger/index.htm

Direct links to tutorials are available here:

http://www.hex-rays.com/idapro/idasupport.htm

I know, I know - we need to add 64-bit support for all platforms, port the Bochs debugger module to Linux, and... any other suggestions? I personally would love to have source level debugging, yet it requires some substantial changes to the kernel. We probably will move in this direction, sooner or later...