On July 22 2014 at 15 I presented different ways to emulate hardware in GNU/Linux at the European event dedicated to Python.

  Slides - GNU/Linux Hardware Emulation with Python

Abstract

With the kernel inotify feature, the D-Bus mocker library and the udev monitoring we try to detect the different events that occours when you’re using a specific set of connected devices.

Then we try to mimic these devices investigating also the kernel drivers if necessary.

At the end we’re ready to connect the simulation routines to our testing procedure.

More info at talk page at EuroPython.