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Setting up a Windows VM for Kernel Debugging
If you search the web using the title of this post, you'll get many links to articles most of which explain how to set this up using a virtual COM port on the VM. Coming from driver background that goes back over 20 years, at first this seemed quite natura
Setting up OS X for kernel debugging
Here are the steps to prepare an OS X system for debugging kernel modules such as drivers. The instructions are deliberately brief to save the reader from tons of text. If you search the web, you will come across may resources that point to using GDB to de
How to view kernel logs in OS X
How to view kernel logs is OS X You can use the command line tool `log` for this. This command accepts a predicate argument that can be used to , well build predicates, that when evaluates to true, the log message will be printed. It takes a command argume
Back to the roots
For the past couple of weeks, I have been working on something that I thought I had left behind a long time ago, a very long time ago -- a windows device driver! I had launched my career writing drivers, first for OS/2 and then eventually for Windows. When