Before writing a single line of code for the new real-time Linux platform, I spent time on the question that decides everything else: what does a powertrain test bench actually need from its softwa...

Since 2018 I have conceived, and been the product owner of, two automation software platforms for test benches: components, battery packs, internal combustion engines and electric motors. I built b...

I wanted a Windows 11 VM to install itself. No console, no mouse, no “next, next, I accept” — hand the hypervisor a disk and an ISO, come back later, find a working desktop. The same Beckhoff indus...

I wanted an SSH session on a machine that sits behind a network which only lets HTTPS out. Not a fancy requirement: a terminal, on a box I am allowed to use, from my own laptop, without a chain of ...

Same machine as last time: a Beckhoff industrial PC running TwinCAT Linux RT, with a Windows 11 guest on top under KVM/libvirt. The detail that matters today is one I mentioned only in passing back...

I rebuilt a Windows 11 guest by hand this week. Same Beckhoff industrial PC running TwinCAT Linux RT I wrote about last time — Debian, real-time kernel, KVM and libvirt underneath. I clicked throug...

I rebuilt a Windows 11 VM this week. It lives on a Beckhoff industrial PC running TwinCAT Linux RT — Debian underneath, real-time kernel, automation runtime on top — with KVM and libvirt doing the ...

A Windows 11 guest on an industrial PC stopped answering on the network. Not crashed, not refusing to boot: it powered on, went through the whole startup, showed a login screen, and then simply was...

I spent a full day this week inside the firewall of a single Linux box. Not building a new one, not migrating from one thing to another: just trying to understand the one that was already there. T...

We’ve all been there at least once, if you are like me, many times! A lot of cool ideas, the brain crunching a lot of different layouts, configurations, application and networking deployments and i...