On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 09:04:42AM +0200, Ruediger Meier wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 November 2016, Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 12:06:36AM +0200, Ruediger Meier wrote:
> > > On Thursday 27 October 2016, Karel Zak wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > this is lscpu output on my machine:
> > > >
> > > > Virtualization: VT-x
> > > > Hypervisor vendor: VMware
> > > > Virtualization type: full
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I have nothing like VMWARE. It seem the code (commit b7744730)
> > > > does not work as expected for non-root users. What about to add
> > >
> > > Have you checked whether the original code in b7744730 is alreaday
> > > broken? Not something about the later PIC/PIE patches?
> >
> > It's Mike's PIC/PIE patch :-(
> >
> > Maybe we can ifdef more precise and add getuid() check, if I good
> > understand Mike's commit message then the problem is 32bit system.
>
> BTW vmware runs on 64bit only since a few years. Maybe just disable
> bdoor for 32bit if it helps to make it simple.
but you can use 32bit system (guest) inside vmware.
I'll will add getuid() for now. Maybe someone (Mike?:-) will help us
with a better solution later.
Karel
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