Testing

Thanks to rapido, it’s become much simpler to test Linux device drivers for real PCIe devices in VMs. The advantages of this approach are: the host is protected from memory corruption errors caused by buggy kernel drivers the PCI peripheral can be physically installed in a multi-use machine, reduci…

It was the year of 2015 and people were still developing new applications in PHP… but for those who could no longer accept the idea of installing a system-wide LAMP stack, there was a new-old fassionable thing: Containers! This is a quick howto for creating a throw-away container for messing around …

Sometimes there is good reason to talk to yourself. You might be doing a sound check, for example. Likewise, it can be useful to route IP packets between two interfaces on the same machine using an external path. One reason to do this is to test other network devices like routers or switches. For ma…