live debug in vm - failed to power on the virtual machine

Question

I want to do remotely debug my visual-cpp app with VMWare Virtual Debugger from a Windows 7 x64 host in a Windows Vista Ultimate x64 guest. I have the same Visual Studio 2010 installed on both host and guest. I followed directions from here, setting the following in the host VS VMWare options:

• virtual machine - path to .vmx file
• remote debug monitor path - path to msvsmon.exe on host
• remote debug monitor name - VMDebug
• guest command - \\vmware-host\Shared Folders\...\bin\DebugWin32\MyApp.exe
• guest login credentials - user and pass for vm

The problem is that when I start the remote debugging, I get:

Debugging started...

Starting the virtual machine.

An error has occurred in the application. For more information please see the log file. Its path is listed in the About box.

VMware: Failed to power on the virtual machine. Unknown error.

This action terminated prematurely or was canceled by user.

An error has occurred in the application. For more information please see the log file. Its path is listed in the About box.

I looked into the log file ActivityLog.xml, but I can only see Information records, and the only one in reference to VMWare is

303 2014/09/11 09:10:37.424 Information VisualStudio Unloading AddIn and calling OnDisConnection: VMDebugger.Connect

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong to debug remotely?

Answer 1

I got past this problem using no authentication on the remote debugger from the guest. In addition to the steps shown in the tutorial, I replicated the solution path I had on the host in the guest for the application.