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kmutil — Utility for managing kernel extensions (kexts) and kext collections on disk. More information: <http

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Problem

How to use the kmutil command: Utility for managing kernel extensions (kexts) and kext collections on disk. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/kmutil.8.html>.

Solution

kmutil — Utility for managing kernel extensions (kexts) and kext collections on disk. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/kmutil.8.html>.

Find kexts available on the operating system:

kmutil find

Display logging information about the Kernel Management sub-system:

kmutil log

Inspect and display a kext collection's contents according to the options provided:

kmutil inspect {{options}}

Check the consistency of kext collections against each other:

kmutil check

Dump kernelmanagerd state for debugging:

sudo kmutil dumpstate

Load one or more extensions based on the bundle specified at this path in the results:

kmutil load --bundle-path {{path/to/extension.kext}}

Code Snippets

Find kexts available on the operating system

kmutil find

Display logging information about the Kernel Management sub-system

kmutil log

Inspect and display a kext collection's contents according to the options provided

kmutil inspect {{options}}

Check the consistency of kext collections against each other

kmutil check

Dump kernelmanagerd state for debugging

sudo kmutil dumpstate

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