vmware server, grsecurity and devices

Finally we've decided to switch to a new infrastructure in our production servers...

evaluating xen and vmware, I finally decided to put vmware server...and see how it reacts on the system...

So I started to create a new vmware image of my favourite linux distro, actually used in production:
Gentoo hardened.

After installing all the necessary for a base system (syslong-ng, vixie-cron, xfsprogs, lvm2, and so on
),configuring lvm2 for dynamic partitions, and recompiling world with the new CFLAGS, the time to compile the kernl arrived...

actually i'm using 2.6.22-hardened-r8

as you can see in teh image below, vmware use some pre-defined emulated hardware devices..so we need to compile the new kernel taking care of them




later I will post the important kernel config sections

stay tuned ;)