Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eespo...@redhat.com> --- docs/devel/testing.rst | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/devel/testing.rst b/docs/devel/testing.rst index 8144e316a4..a746cab745 100644 --- a/docs/devel/testing.rst +++ b/docs/devel/testing.rst @@ -229,6 +229,17 @@ Debugging a test case The following options to the ``check`` script can be useful when debugging a failing test: +* ``-gdb`` wraps every QEMU invocation in a ``gdbserver``, which waits for a + connection from a gdb client. The options given to ``gdbserver`` (e.g. the + address on which to listen for connections) are taken from the ``$GDB_OPTIONS`` + environment variable. By default (if ``$GDB_OPTIONS`` is empty), it listens on + ``localhost:12345``. + It is possible to connect to it for example with + ``gdb -iex "target remote $addr"``, where ``$addr`` is the address + ``gdbserver`` listens on. + If the ``-gdb`` option is not used, ``$GDB_OPTIONS`` is ignored, + regardless on whether it is set or not. + * ``-d`` (debug) just increases the logging verbosity, showing for example the QMP commands and answers. -- 2.30.2
