[vbox-dev] Building/using VirtualBox modules on Tails

[Austin English]

4.3.32

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 7:54 PM, Alexey Eromenko <al4321 at gmail.com> wrote:
> if GUI is loading, then either the security hradening or vboxdrv kernel
> module gives us trouble.
>
> Which VirtualBox version do you use ? Debian 7 Wheezy ships with VBox
> v4.1.x, which is incompatible with new Linux kernels.
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> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:48 AM, Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> The GUI was loading, but I was unable to start a vm.
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>> I'm only compiling the modules using dkms, I'm not building from
>> source (I'm using debian's packages, currently wheezy-backports but
>> that could be changed), see
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>> https://github.com/austin987/tails/commit/05a454543c1be95c8a5e563cbb8acc4f95829559
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>> I'll try compiling live with/without hardening and see what happens.
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>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 7:35 PM, Alexey Eromenko <al4321 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Does the GUI load ?
>> >
>> > What do you see in terminal, when you type in $ VirtualBox
>> >
>> > What do you see in terminal, when you type in $ VBoxSVC
>> >
>> > For GUI to load, kernel module is not required. But to start VMs it is
>> > required.
>> >
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>> -Austin
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> -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"



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