# IDA Linux to Win64 Debugging

One of the fanciest options offered by the IDA 4.8 debugger is the debugging of Windows executables from a Linux machine. The 64 bits remote debugging server is started on the Windows64 machine.

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and IDA for Linux is started with the following command line

idat -rwin32\@192.168.1.56+

the command line switch specifies the debugger type (windows in this case), the machine name/IP (192.168.1.56) and the last + specifies that a list of running processes will be requested from the target machine. IDA will then display that list and you'll be able to connect to processes on the Windows64 machine.

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and here is the 64 bit program, ready to be debugged under Linux.

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