Introduction

There are two ways to debug a device-driver in Windows. The first is to install the driver on your development machine and run a local kernel-mode debugger such as SoftIce. Although SoftIce is a very powerful tool, debugging a driver on your development machine is not a good idea because you will be guaranteed to destroy all your work if the driver crashes the system. You really need to install your driver on a separate machine and use remote kernel-debugging with a null-modem serial cable to protect your development box.

Introduction to Device Drivers