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Zohar81
Zohar81

Reputation: 5128

Route process output to windbg

Working on virtual machine environment, I'm using DbgView to obtain my printout log messages using debug_wsting

However, Working on large number of processes that produces those messages seem to consume lot to cpu and eventually halt the VM, So I'm looking of a way to offload this activity to the machine that runs this VM. Perhaps there's a way to output the logs to remote windbg ?

Is there anything to configure on Client/Server ?

thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 154

Answers (1)

Thomas Weller
Thomas Weller

Reputation: 59641

I never tried it on my own, but it's described in Windows Sysinternals Administrator's reference (Amazon). I thought I knew the Sysinternals tools quite well, but it turned aout I learned a lot. Totally worth reading.

To perform remote monitoring, DebugView runs in agent mode on the remote system [...]

To do so, run DbgView /a. Add /k if you need kernel messages as well and /gfor session 0.

[...] sending debug output it captures to a central DebugView viewer that displays the output.

and

To begin remote monitoring, press Ctrl+R or choose Connect from the Computer menu [...]

Be careful not to connect multiple viewers to a single computer because the debug output will be split between those viewers.

So, the output is there only once and after whatever machine fetches it, it's gone. Sounds normal.

Upvotes: 2

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