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From: pageexec@××××××××.hu
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] vmware broken on amd64 hardened
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:19:58
Message-Id: 4F3BB0C3.12717.271C7DD@pageexec.freemail.hu
In Reply to: [gentoo-hardened] vmware broken on amd64 hardened by Alex Efros
1 On 14 Feb 2012 at 20:36, Alex Efros wrote:
2
3 > I've just converted my system from x86 to amd64 (Core i7), and one of
4 > things which become broken because of this is vmware. When I start any
5 > guest my host immediately reset, and after booting I didn't see anything
6 > in logs - neither in kernel nor in vmware's logs.
7
8 it's likely the same problem as bug 382793.
9
10 > I can't try gentoo-sources and hardened-sources with exactly same
11 > vmware-modules, because of extra patches needed for vmware-modules to make
12 > it compatible with hardened, and these patches incompatible with non-hardened.
13
14 what error do you get with the patched vmware modules under non-hardened?
15 they simply move some structure initialization around, that should not be
16 affected by the toolchain.
17
18 > +CONFIG_IA32_AOUT=y
19
20 btw, i don't think you need/want a.out support anywhere these days ;)

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