1. A target computer comprising: a system management bus; an adapter coupled to the system management bus, the adapter being configured to receive debugging commands in a first format from a debugger application executing on a host computer via an interface corresponding to the first format, convert the debugging commands from the first format compatible with the interface to a second format compatible with the system management bus, and to send the debugging commands in the second format to the system management bus; and a basic input/output system (BIOS) having a debugger module stored therein, the debugger module being configured to receive the debugging commands in the second format from the adapter via the system management bus and to respond to the debugging commands in the second format.