Re: VirtualBox on KNOPPIX 6.7.0

[Kuniyasu Suzaki <k.suzaki@aist.go.jp>]

Klaus,

From: Klaus Knopper <debian-knoppix@knopper.net>
Subject: Re: VirtualBox on KNOPPIX 6.7.0
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:32:47 +0200

> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:52:26PM +0900, Kuniyasu Suzaki wrote:
> > 
> > Hello, 
> > 
> > Can you boot an OS on VirtualBox installed on KNOPPIX 6.7.0?
> > 
> > At first I have to re-create vboxdrv module.
> >  sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms
> > 
> > The module is installed but, I met another error.
> >   Failed to load VMMR0.r0","Unknown error creating VM"
> > 
> > The log said that Symlinks are not permitted at /usr.
> > 
> >   00:00:11.506 pdmR3LoadR0U: pszName="VMMR0.r0" rc=VERR_SUPLIB_SYMLINKS_ARE_NOT_PERMITTED szErr="Symlinks are not permitted: '/usr'"
> > 
> > Please tell me how to remove the error.
> 
> It seems that the Makers of Virtualbox broke it on several distributions
> by adding "hardening checks" that make it impossible to start Virtualbox
> on a system that has symlinks in its library paths. BSD Users have
> reported this, too:
> 
> http://www.nntpnews.info/showthread.php?t=19701327&pagenumber=
> 
> There is no configuration option or commandline flag available in
> virtualbox which would disable these checks.
> 
> As you may have read before on the debian-knoppix list, this is not the
> only problem with virtualbox nowadays. :-(
> 
> Actually, the best solution for me rught now seems to deinstall
> virtualbox and use only kvm instead in future releases of Knoppix,
> rather than downgrading to a very old version or patching the sources to
> something that the authors of Virtualbox consider as "insecure".
> 
> Sorry, I have no workaround for this virtualbox bug.

Thank you for your reply. 
I understand the situation that some applications do not allow symlinks in its library paths.


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suzaki