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Re: VMWare VMWare hints and suggestions



On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Adi Stav wrote:

> > Do these modules come with VMWare ? Are they installed in the
> > installation procedure, or separately ?
> 
> They do come with VMWare and IIRC it also installs them automatically
> (otherwise just do "insmod modulename.o"). 

  No need to install the modules. Actually, the modules are compiled when you
first configure VMWare and are loaded automagically.

> > Thanks for the warning, and advice. Do I understand correctly that the 
> > way to avoid this danger is to run VMWare under a non-privileged user ?
> 
> Now I remember the newer versions probably allow to you use a file as
> your virtual hardisk, which is safer. But in addition to that, best
> run it as a non-priveleged user, yeah. You can never know what bugs it
> has.

  I think VMWare can't work as a non-privledged user. In any case, it's
advisable to remove the setuid bit that is by default enabled for VMWare,
and run as root (which I think you must).

  Alon

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