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tyree731 | 10 months ago

Not the operating system:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver_Verifier

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ZeroWidthJoiner|10 months ago

Driver Verifier is a tool that developers can choose to use for testing and debugging purposes.

It's not used on production machines and it does nothing to prevent a badly written driver from crashing the kernel.

Animats|10 months ago

Kernel drivers have to be verified by the driver verifier to pass Windows Hardware Qualification Labs certification and get signed with the Windows signing key that lets them load without warnings. There are fewer outside kernel drivers today, though, because plugging random peripheral cards into PC buses is no longer a big thing.

vbezhenar|10 months ago

My PC used to regularly crash Windows 10 because of buggy Nvidia driver. Eventually they fixed the bug, but until then, I had a crash every few days.

ryao|10 months ago

From your own link:

"Driver Verifier is not normally used on machines used in productive work. It can cause ... blue screen fatal system errors."