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KVM Backend for VirtualBox. With our current development model, we cannot easily accept pull requests here. If you'd like to contribute, feel free to reach out to us, we are happy to find a solution.
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Is it safe to ignore the warning about disabled hardening? #12

Closed antermin closed 8 months ago

antermin commented 9 months ago

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

thesamesam commented 9 months ago

cc @ceamac

parthy commented 9 months ago

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 commented 9 months ago

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!

tpressure commented 8 months ago

This issue is now tracked in #23