On various occasions, I’ve received inquiries about how to install and start using WinDbg. For this reason, in this post, I’m going to show you how to configure an environment with WinDbg and virtual ...

When it comes to debugging hard-to-diagnose software and operating-system problems, there is no set recipe. Rather debugging is all about “having the right tools and knowing how to use them,” advised ...

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 ...

Does anyone here have any experience with debugging drivers under Windows XP or Vista?<BR><BR>I've always used Soft-Ice until now, but this is no longer an option (not available under Vista and client ...

Microsoft has launched a new open-source project that aims to add to Windows the benefits of eBPF, a technology first implemented in Linux that allows attaching programs in both kernel and user ...

Recently, Microsoft announced that the kernel in WSL2 would finally be bumped to a more modern version, and was pushed to a pre-release version. The new kernel, 6.6.36.3 has now been rolled back to ...

Testing is an integral and important part of any software development cycle, open or closed, and Linux kernel is no exception to that. Developer testing, integration testing, regression, and stress ...