# IDA Win32 to Win64 Debugging

In order to remotely debug a 64 bit process running on Windows64, we start the remote debugging server on the target machine.

![start\_amd64\_server](/files/I7qGb7o2d1Zw0avOHjbn)

We start IDAG64 (the 32-bit hosted version of IDA that is fully 64 bit capable) and use the "attach to remote win64" command .

![config\_amd64\_dbg](/files/AFQQWJ4b1tvIqIwUzbQ1)

IDA displays a list of the processes running on the 64 bit machines, we choose, click...

![connect\_to\_amd64](/files/19bhD0SypRimZL9caiZ5)

and, here we are, welcome to the fancy world of 64 bit debugging! Yes, the registers are a bit wide... but we are looking into a fancy compression scheme that...

![attached\_to\_amd64](/files/JABSlNMWzLpi0QDCwKBV)


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