Today I wanted to mount an iPhone inside a KVM-based VM. My host is Ubuntu 15.04, the guest is Windows XP. Well, it didn’t quite work at first because the host kept stealing back the phone’s USB connection. The culprit was usbmuxd, a “USB multiplexing daemon” that handles communications with iOS devices and Linux. To temporarily overwrite its behavior I added an empty udev rules file:

$ sudo touch /etc/udev/rules.d/39-usbmuxd.rules

This rule file (which does nothing) takes precedence over the original rules in /lib/udev/rules.d, with the result that it would no longer trigger the usbmuxd daemon whenever an iPhone is detected on the USB host.

Reload udev with:

$ sudo udevadm control --reload-rules

And now, it’s time to run the TaiG Jailbreak.

I was fiddling with the fonts on my Linux notebook today, and I thought, why not upgrade all the Windows-based fonts with the latest fonts from Windows 10 (preview version)? Well, something definitely got changed and I don’t think I like it.

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