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Chris PeBenito wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 08:05 +1200, Steve Wray wrote: |
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>>Hi there, |
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>>I've been trying to build selinux in a vmware box and so far I havn't |
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>>been able to get past stage 2. |
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>>Are there known issues with selinux under vmware? |
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> I don't know of any SELinux issues as either a guest or host OS. |
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> Specific error messages would help. |
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Its difficult to get exact error messages; in the first case vmware |
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crashes dismaly, sometimes (not often) taking the host with it in a |
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kernel panic. |
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In the second case its not consistent from one run to another; most of |
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the time gcc segfaults at various points in the glibc emerge. It takes |
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rather a long time to turn around these test runs, the crash can happen |
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as far as 8 or 9 hours into the build (the host is a dual athlon MP 2000 |
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with 1G ram). |
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My first reaction was to suspect the host hardware. |
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However, memtest86 came up clean, and I have built regular gentoo from |
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stage 1 on the same vmware instance with no problems. The host itself |
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has been rock solid stable except for vmware. I've used it to build lots |
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of things. |
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I have some things I'll be testing in the next few days; |
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- building regular but hardened gentoo on vmware and converting that to |
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selinux. |
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- installing another hard drive and building selinux from stage 1 on |
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that using the same hardware as before, only not in vmware. |
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