Virtual Oxide Labs: Emulating a Full Oxide Rack
Summary
Virtual Oxide Labs (Voxel) describes a full software emulation stack for Oxide racks, enabling rack-scale hardware testing without physical hardware. The piece covers using racklettes, Propolis VMs, Omicron configurations, and a snapshot-based workflow to launch realistic rack environments, including emulated service processors and microcontrollers via sp-emu. It also highlights the emphasis on fidelity to stock Oxide software and details the deployment steps, tooling, and hardware requirements.