Writing a Windows Kernel Driver in Rust
2025-02-08
This article details the experience of writing a Windows kernel driver in Rust. The author overcomes the verbosity of converting between Rust and C/C++ types, using `wdk` crates to build a simple WDM driver – "Booster" – capable of changing the priority of any thread. The article walks through project setup, dependency configuration, core code implementation, driver installation, and testing, highlighting challenges and future improvements for Rust in kernel driver development.
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