Hello!
Why does VirtualBox 6 need access to /dev/mapper/control?
Does it temporarily create encrypted volumes at runtime? Or is this needed for encrypted virtual drives?
In my case, I don´t use encrypted virtual drives with VBox, thus I wonder why access is still needed....
Thanks!
Access to /dev/mapper/control
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Re: Access to /dev/mapper/control
Out of curiosity, how and why did you make that discovery? And is it something of concern, or are you simply investigating?Totalvirtual wrote:Why does VirtualBox 6 need access to /dev/mapper/control?
I have an idea why (load VDIs/VMDKs/etc as mounted disks), but that requires FUSE, not sure if FUSE requires that...
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Re: Access to /dev/mapper/control
I use AppArmor to confine/secure a number of software I use, VirtualBox is one of it. AppArmor has reported the access attempt to /dev/mapper/control.
I´m not really concerned, it´s more curiousity. Normally /dev/mapper/control is needed to handle LUKS encrypted volumes, I´m pretty much sure, FUSE does not depend on the /dev/mapper/ mechanism.
But, so what, if VB wants it, it gets it
I´m not really concerned, it´s more curiousity. Normally /dev/mapper/control is needed to handle LUKS encrypted volumes, I´m pretty much sure, FUSE does not depend on the /dev/mapper/ mechanism.
But, so what, if VB wants it, it gets it