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Context-Based Auth.: Identify host by environment

Published at October 24, 2025 · Mateusz Kusiak ·  13 min read

Geofencing - a mechanism that allows limiting various types of access to a specific area. To do so, often GPS or cellular information utilized. The issue is, stationary computers and laptops often lack needed hardware. …but what if we could use just the wifi-chips embedded in those devices to achieve even more secure result?...

Categories: iot miscellaneous security





Trying to fix ESXi 6.7.0 boot issue, part one

Published at March 4, 2020 · Krystian Hebel ·  14 min read

First mentions that updated versions of VMware's ESXi 6.7.0 installer doesn't start on PC Engines platforms come from the beginning of 2019. Older versions of ESXi worked fine. 'Shutting down firmware services...' is the last line printed before hang or reboot....

Categories: firmware os-dev


VMX exit reasons and handlers

Published at January 23, 2020 · Krystian Hebel ·  14 min read

After long break, this is the third post in the hypervisor series. We will see how VMX helps with virtualization of restricted instructions and how Bareflank allows for implementation of handlers for them. At the end we will show how to write and add our own handler....

Categories: firmware


How L4 Genode hypervisor stands against proprietary RTOS solution

Published at January 10, 2020 · Krystian Hebel ·  5 min read

A microkernel is a minimal computer operating system kernel which provides no operating system services at all, only the mechanisms needed to implement such services. A concept is tolerated inside the μ-kernel only if moving it outside the kernel would prevent the implementation of the system’s required functionality. In this article we will show our considerations on using L4 microkernels on VM....

Categories: os-dev




Building and running Bareflank

Published at May 15, 2019 · Krystian Hebel ·  13 min read

In this second post of a series, we will build and start our first hypervisor. It won't do much just yet, but it is good to get known with its build system....

Categories: firmware


5 terms every hypervisor developer should know

Published at April 30, 2019 · Krystian Hebel ·  11 min read

This is the first post of a series about developing bare-metal hypervisors. It introduces to Intel's VMX technology, describes interactions between a virtual machine and a hypervisor as well as gives some insight on the control structures required. This post should give some theoretical knowledge base required for the next ones, in which we will implement a basic hypervisor....

Categories: firmware


virtualbox-dkms: fix alloc_netdev problems when compiling with 3.17.0-rcX headers

Published at September 20, 2014 · Piotr Król ·  4 min read

Intro Because of my bug hunting approach of using latest kernel I experienced problem with compiling VirtualBox modules with 3.17.0-rc5 version on my Debian Jessie. Issue is well known and described for examples here. Problem manifest itself with: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ------------------------------ Deleting module version: 4.3.14 completely from the DKMS tree. ------------------------------ Done. Loading new virtualbox-4.3.14 DKMS files... Building only for 3....

Categories: app-dev


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