My Kernel Debugger Won't Connect

Hello ntdebugging readers, the Debug Ninja is back again with a quick blog this holiday season.  I recently encountered a situation where the kernel debugger could not connect to a Windows Server 2008 R2 system running in a Hyper-V virtual machine.  The configuration appeared correct; however, the debugger would not connect to the VM.

In windbg you can use Ctrl+Alt+D to view the debugger’s internal information flow.  In KD use Ctrl+D followed by ENTER to toggle the output.  Enabling this output I could see that the debugger was unable to read from the debug port, and that it was getting timeouts.  The error "SYNCTARGET: Timeout." is a clear indication that the debug host cannot communicate with the debug target, especially when this error appears after a “Send Break in” message.

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