In current developer builds of VirtualBox, KVM support appears for the first time. The function is experimental and only available through manual source builds.

I'm nowhere near an expert, so maybe I'm missing something simple. Anyhow, Fedora released a new kernel today (2.6.7-1.494.2.2(smp)) & linux-ntfs doesn't have an rpm available, so I figured I'd just ...

Signed kernel modules have been a feature of other operating systems for a number of years. Some people and companies like the idea of installing only modules (or drivers, as they are sometimes called ...

I did something recently I haven’t done in a long time: I recompiled the Linux kernel. There was a time when this was a common occurrence. You might want a feature that the default kernel didn’t ...

NVIDIA has announced that it will transition all GPU-related kernel modules to open source. Cutting-edge modules such as NVIDIA Grace Hopper and NVIDIA Blackwell will be supported only as open source ...

Alexei Starovoitov posted some patches to allow the kernel to load regular ELF binaries (aka plain executables) as kernel modules. These modules would be able to run user-mode helper routines instead ...

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 ...

We have noticed that sometimes, VirtualBox fails to start a virtual machine session and throws the VERR_NEM_MISSING_KERNEL_API VirtualBox error. When going through ...

Members of the open source community are working on a new security-focused project for the Linux kernel. Named Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG), this is a loadable kernel module that will perform ...

Forget VirtualBox - I discovered a better, more reliable VM manager for Linux ...