[ros-dev] About debugging ROS

[Xu Liu]

I am just a new person who wants to debug ROS, so my questions may be stupid.

I have checked http://www.reactos.org/wiki/Debugging . It seems the
main debugging way is "Debugging through text messages" (I think it is
more like "checking logs"). If I want to use GDB, I have to use QEMU.
Would you please tell me is Kdbg the only way to debug code in VMWare
or VirtualBox?

And if I want to debug ReactOS, do I have to install QEMU or VMWare or
VirtualBox? Using "make install" in RosBE can generate many binary
files. Is there any build-in way to start ROS from these bin files
without any virtual machine?

Thank you in advance.