Michael S. Dunsaavage wrote:

On 8/14/2010 11:46 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Duaine Hechler [08-14-10 23:36]:

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This works in the Gnome Terminal: sudo 'VirtualBox'

BUT does not work in the Gnome Launcher *desktop icon".

What do I need to get it to work ? did you look at the "desktop icon"'s properties?

and perhaps the desktop icon isn't running it as root or sudoed?

I'm trying to, I have this in the launcher for command: sudo 'VirtualBox' -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Bjørn Lie wrote:

lø., 14.08.2010 kl. 23.59 -0500, skrev Duaine Hechler:

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Michael S. Dunsaavage wrote:

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On 8/14/2010 11:46 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Duaine Hechler [08-14-10 23:36]:

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This works in the Gnome Terminal: sudo 'VirtualBox'

BUT does not work in the Gnome Launcher *desktop icon".

What do I need to get it to work ?

did you look at the "desktop icon"'s properties?

and perhaps the desktop icon isn't running it as root or sudoed?

I'm trying to, I have this in the launcher for command:

sudo 'VirtualBox'

try gnomesu

but why do you need to have virtualbox running as root? I fail to see the need.

Bjørn

gnomesu worked !! As far as running as root. I'm running Oracle's version. Even the start menu icon will not start. Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Il 15/08/2010 08:29, Bjørn Lie ha scritto:

sø., 15.08.2010 kl. 01.14 -0500, skrev Duaine Hechler:

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Bjørn Lie wrote:

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gnomesu worked !!

As far as running as root. I'm running Oracle's version. Even the start menu icon will not start.

Duaine

Do what Vaivai suggested!

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Did you add your login user as vboxusers group ?

Hint : http://vavai.net/2010/08/06/oracle-virtualbox-3-2-6-on-opensuse-11-3/

Me too had some problems, i missed the vboxdrv that i cannot find in anyway, however I solved in this way: Istalled only version 3.2.8 directly froms here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads added, as said before, my user to vboxusers, added this 3 packages with all their dependecies: gcc, kernel-source and make. afterwards from konsole as root type: /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup wait and see: Stopping VirtualBox kernel module done Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module done Starting VirtualBox kernel module done restart virtual box and see if it works! Good luck!!! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 08:14, Duaine Hechler wrote:

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but why do you need to have virtualbox running as root? I fail to see the need.

gnomesu worked !!

As far as running as root. I'm running Oracle's version. Even the start menu icon will not start.

Running as root is definitely NOT necessary nor desirable.

From the user manual at: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch02.html#id2649623 "The group vboxusers will be created during installation. Note that a user who is going to run VirtualBox must be member of that group."

So add your user to that vboxusers group (easy with YAST, if you don't want to do it on command line), log out, log in and VBox will work as you expect and want it to - eg from a desktop icon. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

C wrote:

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On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 08:14, Duaine Hechler wrote:

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but why do you need to have virtualbox running as root? I fail to see the need.

gnomesu worked !!

As far as running as root. I'm running Oracle's version. Even the start menu icon will not start.

Running as root is definitely NOT necessary nor desirable.

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From the user manual at: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch02.html#id2649623 "The group vboxusers will be created during installation. Note that a user who is going to run VirtualBox must be member of that group."

So add your user to that vboxusers group (easy with YAST, if you don't want to do it on command line), log out, log in and VBox will work as you expect and want it to - eg from a desktop icon.

C.

Thank you all. I must have missed that the last time I upgraded. I knew I had it running as non-root before but I couldn't put my figure on why and what I did to make it so.

I've added this step to my "tickle" file for the next time this happens.

Duaine

By the way, besides downloading directly from the Oracle site, Oracle also maintains a repository, here: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/opensuse/11.3/ This is the same "proprietary" version (the OSE version is in the SuSE repo). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 08/15/2010 01:09 AM, Michael S. Dunsaavage pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

try gnome-terminal -x sudo myapp [options]

All of the previous BS in this thread (except vboxuser group and compiling the driver as root) is unnecessary. You can run virtualbox as an ordinary user if you set it up _properly_. There is *NO* need to sudu ay all. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

* ka1ifq [08-15-10 09:58]:

I have done the install, built the driver as root, added my user to the vboxuser group and it does not start from my user, but will if I start from a root terminal, not sure what is wrong. I did the same thing on my last system (11.1) and it worked fine.

*assure* that your are a member of "vboxusers" ie: issue groups from cl as <user>. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sunday, August 15, 2010 10:13:02 am C wrote:

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 16:08, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* ka1ifq [08-15-10 09:58]:

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I have done the install, built the driver as root, added my user to the vboxuser group and it does not start from my user, but will if I start from a root terminal, not sure what is wrong. I did the same thing on my last system (11.1) and it worked fine.

*assure* that your are a member of "vboxusers"

ie: issue groups from cl as <user>.

Ok, did that and found it did not show me added. I had restarted the computer after adding for another reason and my account auto logs on. I still needed to log out and back on, weird as I thought that the restart would have covered that, guess not. I am all set now, thanks all.

And.. make sure you log out, and back in again so the groups are attached to your user id.

C.

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