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Debugging macOS Kernel Using VirtualBox

Update: In the HN discussion, awalton mentioned you can set CPUID flags in VMWare. Simply adding cpuid.7.ebx = "-----------0--------------------" to the vmx file will disable SMAP. Late last year, I upgraded my old MBP to the 2016 model with a Skylake processor. As I was debugging a kernel exploit, it turned out that…
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Apr 10, 2017Debugging macOS Kernel Using VirtualBox by lilbunnyfoobar16140

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