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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon cyberus-technology

Is it safe to ignore the warning about disabled hardening?

Open antermin opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

From https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/35258, it seems that --disable-hardening is needed, otherwise it still requires the vboxdrv module.

At the same time, there is a warning if you use --disable-hardening. Is it safe to ignore the warning?

https://github.com/cyberus-technology/virtualbox-kvm/blob/0396965179fdfb49c87ab49cc77b4e81fd42e0a7/configure#L3142-L3160

antermin avatar Feb 11 '24 04:02 antermin

cc @ceamac

thesamesam avatar Feb 11 '24 07:02 thesamesam

Just to clarify: Our instructions including disabling hardening are mainly because that's how we know it's possible to run the freshly built binaries. We are not recommending to ignore warnings or deviate from standard procedures out there when packaging VirtualBox for production use.

That being said, the proper packaging is currently not our main focus, so we are also not too experienced with it. If there is anything in the code that we need to fix, we are happy to assist.

parthy avatar Feb 12 '24 13:02 parthy

Just to let everyone know, we have now included more information in the readme. Feel free to have a look and let us know if that clarifies things!

parthy avatar Feb 21 '24 15:02 parthy

This issue is now tracked in #23

tpressure avatar Mar 26 '24 19:03 tpressure