Up until about 10 years ago I wrote a lot of Linux device drivers. The last one I wrote was in '03, needless to say I'm out of practice (and out of date, that was for a 2.4 kernel). I've got 2 ...

In case you don’t know, Hyper-V and other virtual machine software do not get along on the same computer. You must choose either Hyper-V or any other third-party virtual machine software. In this case ...

I'm working on getting a server up and running for work, and I've run into a brick wall. I've got VMware 2.0 running on Debian Squeeze, with the same Debian Squeeze as the guest OS. I've been doing ...

When you write programs in user space, the worst thing that can happen to your program is a core dump. Your program did something very wrong, so the operating system decided to give you all of its ...

Kernel modules are chunks of code that are loaded and unloaded into the kernel as needed, thus extending the functionality of the kernel without requiring a reboot. In fact, unless users inquire about ...