[vbox-dev] Please produce a non-hardened build for Windows

[Alexander Rudnev]

Hi Alexey,

the alternative solution is to privately build VirtualBox without 
hardening. You can do it using sources from 
https://www.virtualbox.org/browser/trunk
Build instructions: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Build_instructions

On 31/01/2022 19:58, Klaus Espenlaub wrote:
> Hello Alexey,
> 
> if you expect to get an Oracle signed non-hardened build: forget it. 
> This would be the dream of people creating malware.
> 
> Working on the hardening issue could be the right way to go. Any place 
> we can get a log file showing the failure?
> 
> Wondering if it's worth the effort, given that Windows 7 is out of 
> support for 2 years now. Using an OS with known (and even more unknown) 
> unfixed security issues as the host OS for running VMs doesn't sound 
> like a good idea to me. No matter what cool hardware you're using with it.
> 
> Klaus
> 
> On 2022-01-29 06:53, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
>> NOTE: This problem only occur with Windows 7 + large SSDs, 8 TB each.
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 7:53 AM Alexey Eromenko <al4321 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> on my system, Windows 7, for some reason all the hardened builds fail 
>>> to run.
>>>
>>> Latest that is known to run is VirtualBox 4.1.6, from a decade ago.
>>> Because it is non-hardened.
>>>
>>> And let's try to debug the actual issue with hardening too (harded
>>> build with extra-debug-logs)
>>> -- 
>>> -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"
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