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Hello,

Hardening is enabled, so I cant run VB as a normal user.

If I put a line in the sudoers file, then I can run VB as my normal user, but Im wondering if this is safe? Is VB being run as root in this situation, or does it drop privilidges to normal user? Or should I simply recompile without hardening? Which is the safest way to run VB?

Thanks.

VB is made to be run as normal user. The executable is set UID root, so it attains root for a limited time, just to get access to the kernel module, then drops back to normal user. If you need to run VB as root with Sudo, then you need to change you system config so you don't need to.

Sasquatch,

The packages I installed were slackbuild scripts from slackbuilds.org, so I uninstalled them and instead ran 'VirtualBox-2.2.2-46594-Linux_x86.run' from virtualbox.org, and it works perfectly.

Thankyou