{"id":111,"date":"2008-10-08T21:19:40","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T21:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2008-10-08T21:19:40","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T21:19:40","slug":"vmware-and-selinux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/technology\/2008\/10\/vmware-and-selinux\/","title":{"rendered":"VMWare and SELinux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So is blog is basically dormant but I&#8217;ve been struggling with a computer problem and now I have the solution I wanted to document it. I&#8217;ve been trying to make VMWare Server 2 work on my Fedora 9 box; I could get to the log in prompt but once I tried to log in, it just said &#8220;connecting&#8221; until it finally timed out.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s taken me ages to find the solution, I&#8217;d read that VMWare Server 2 didn&#8217;t work well with SELinux but I&#8217;d assumed that couldn&#8217;t affect me as the boxes I&#8217;d tried it on (32 and 64 bit) both had SELinux in permissive mode. It turns out that permissive mode isn&#8217;t enough  &#8211; to make it work you have to disable SELinux entirely.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t understand it &#8211; in my limited understanding of SELinux I thought that it wouldn&#8217;t block anything in permissive mode but I&#8217;ve tried disabling SELinux and it works; so for now that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m going to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So is blog is basically dormant but I&#8217;ve been struggling with a computer problem and now I have the solution I wanted to document it. I&#8217;ve been trying to make VMWare Server 2 work on my Fedora 9 box; I could get to the log in prompt but once I tried to log in, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[39,12,38,36,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}