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John Ernest
John Ernest

Reputation: 827

Kernel Debugging in VS2015

I'm having a fair bit of difficulty in trying to get VS2015 Community running on 2 separate computers to enable remote kernel debugging over the network. Both PCs are running on Windows 10 Enterprise.

Here's the IPs:

192.168.1.79 - Host
192.168.1.84 - Target

On the target I ran as administrator:

bcdedit /debug on
bcdedit /dbgsettings net hostip:192.168.1.79 port:55252

When I try to connect to it from the host in VS2015 I put in 192.168.1.84 as the host, then the key and the hostip and port listed above. It says it can't connect to 192.168.1.84:50005 even though I put the port as 55252?

I followed this article here:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh439346(v=vs.85).aspx

The hostip on the target should be pointing to 192.168.1.79 (host) right? Are there any other services I need to start or am I missing anything? I tried a reboot too.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 578

Answers (1)

John Ernest
John Ernest

Reputation: 827

Make sure that you've run:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Remote\x64\WDK Test Target Setup x64-x64_en-us.msi

After you've installed the WDK/VS Tools and BEFORE you connect to the remote debugger with the host computer. I had to read the above from this separate article on provisioning.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/gettingstarted/provision-a-target-computer-wdk-8-1

It's doing all of its copying now. The host/target nomenclature can be a little confusing I would prefer it to just be source/destination as I usually instinctively think of a host in terms of a destination not a source.

Upvotes: 2

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