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November 21st, 2008

7.20 EXDI Server Device

This interface, and the instructions contained herein, applies only to the Windows operating system-hosted version of the simulator.

The simulator provides a special device known as the EXDI Server Device. This device can be added to any BSD. When a BSD containing the EXDI Server Device is loaded, the EXtended Debugging Interface becomes available. This allows client debugging software, such as CmdeXdi and the Windows kernel debugger, to interact with the platform being simulated, as if it were a real hardware platform.

The installation of the simulator should provide all the COM registration hooks that are required. If it does not, here are the steps to manually register the EXDI server:

1.Open a command window (run cmd.exe).

2.Change the current directory to the location where the simulator was installed.

3.Execute the command [Regsvr32 exdi64ps.dll]. You should get a message box indicating that registration was successful.

4.Execute the command [Regrgs exdiamdserver.rgs MODULE="path and file name of exdi64ps.dll, usually C:\SimNow\exdi64ps.dll"].

When running the Windows kernel debugger, you must provide command line information that tells the debugger how to attach to the EXDI Server. The command line for this is:

kd -kx exdi:clsid={F65E71B3-FEDC-4FA7-A818-5959CD30DD41}

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4.4.5 specifications

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