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Alex Efros <powerman@××××××××.name> 2010-07-08 21:36: |
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> Hi! |
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> While discussing inability to run 64-bit VMware guests on 32-bit Gentoo |
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> Hardened host I got reply: it's because of GrSec/Pax bug related to |
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> "way that vmap(..., VM_PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC) may map a page as |
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> non-executable, despite the flag requesting an executable mapping": |
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> http://communities.vmware.com/message/1567187#1567187 |
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> I wonder which hardened-source will include fix for this issue? |
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> Is candidate for next stable (2.6.32-r?) have it? |
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> -- |
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> WBR, Alex. |
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So far as I know KVM works and in my experience has performed much |
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better than VMWare Workstation/Server. You might want to give that a |
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try. libvirt and virt-manager make it fairly easy to deal with. |
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Brian |
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