Running Visual Studio Remote Debugger in Windows Container (Docker managed)

Question

I try to run the Visual Studio Remote Debugger in a Windows Container on Windows Server 2016 TP4. Since it runs inside a conta

Answer 1

Okay, throwing out the really obvious here. From your post, the command

".\msvsmon.exe /nostatus /silent /nosecuritywarn /nofirewallwarn /noclrwarn /port 4020 /hostname WIN-DE6U4068NAF"

will just print that exact same string in powershell. It doesn't actually start the debugger. The echo output shows this. (I might be reading too much into this)

So /nofirewallwarn only suppresses the blocked by firewall warning (YMMV), and doesn't actually get through the firewall. Have you run it with /prepcomputer first?

Have you tried /anyuser to bypass auth and allow just TCP to work?

Is msvsmon actually bound to the right network interface? Sometimes, being bound to the loopback adapter means that it can only be reachable locally. When you netstat does it show listening on all interfaces (0.0.0.0)?

Have you tried running it as a service with the /service option? There might be some more gotchas, though. I've usually had a tough time getting it to work in the field.