Frank Mehnert wrote: > walt, > > I forward the answer from Knut here as his previous E-mail was > accidently sent to the wrong address: > > Developers which wish to run directly from the build directory > should add VBOX_WITHOUT_HARDENING=1 to their LocalConfig.kmk. If > you're going to pack and install the stuff, you need to mark > VirtualBox, VirtualBox3, VBoxHeadless, VBoxSDL and VBoxBFE (you > might not be shipping all these) as setuid like done at the bottom > of debian/postinst. > > Instead of editing LocalConfig.kmk there is now a configure option > for disabling this setuid requirement: > > ./configure --disable-hardened > > Make sure you update any udev rules and reload the right vboxdrv > after build it like this, otherwise it won't run (you'll get access > denied errors).
For the record, it's ./configure --disable-hardening, but it does the job. Thanks very much. Is there an on-line discussion of why the hardening feature was started and/or who would want to use it? (If the discussion has been in this mailing list then it's well disguised :o) _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
