Visual Studio can not start debug session when debuging kernel driver

Question

When I try to debug my KMDF driver from Visual Studio 2013, I get following error

Windows Debugging Extension for Visual Studio

Could not start debug session, error 8004005: Unspecified error

Before I get the error, it do install the driver on the target machine. Is there any log file where I can see more information?

Edit 1:

The host is Windows 7 and the target is Windows 8.1 installed in VMWare ESXi

Edit 2:

I have now tested with WINDBG, and get following log output:

Using NET for debugging

Open WinSock 2.0

Failed to initialize socket. Error On-2147467259

Kernel debugger failed initialization, HRESULT 0x80004005

"Unspecified error"

I also get following message box:

Could not start kernel debugging using

net:port=50230,key=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX parameters, HRESULT 0x80004005

Did you end up fixing your problem? I am having the same issue. — 8bitcartridge, Jan 16 '14 at 00:09
Now that was a while ago I was doing this, and I unfortunately do not remember what I did to fix it. Good luck getting it up and running :-) — magol, Jan 16 '14 at 07:54
@8bitcartridge did you manage to fix this ? I have the same issue. — Gabriel Bercea, Oct 17 '18 at 09:29
@Whosdatdev yes, but I don't remember how :D perhaps updating the whole KMDF/VS toolset helped. — yuyoyuppe, Mar 05 '20 at 10:52

Sergey Vaulin · Answer 1 · 2022-04-08T13:55:14.760

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Windows Debugging Extension for Visual Studio

Could not start debug session, error 8004005: Unspecified error

I had no problems and some why Visual Studio 2019 Kernel Debugger has started to throw error above, VS restarts did nothing...

The solution for me was: PC reboot

edited Apr 08 '22 at 13:55

answered Apr 08 '22 at 07:31

Sergey Vaulin

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