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I came into my office today to find that my keyboard would no longer type capital letters. The shift, caps lock, and even num lock keys seemed to be broken. After a quick WTF it was pointed out to me that VMWare occasionally does this to Linux machines. Thanks to Matt who showed me a quick ...

VMWare 6 and above has this neat debugging functionality where you can attach gdb running on a host, to a guest running inside VMWare. This allows you to debug a running kernel, or on linux running processes. However, VMWare seems to have coded a bit of a hack to allow gdb to understand what process/threads are ...