Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (824 mails)

[Magnus Boman <captain.magnus@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 12:45 +0200, Sylvester Lykkehus wrote:
> Francis Giannaros wrote:
> > Can anyone verify that VirtualBox works and runs on 64bit? I spent a
> > large amount of time trying to get it working for a user, and they
> > seemed to be doing everything right:
> > * kernel module was loaded
> > * user was in the vboxusers group

Did the same...

> > 
> > ...but it still produced the "not in vboxusers group or module not
> > loaded". They tried the .run on virtualbox.org and it worked fine
> > there. I tried to pressure him into a bug report but I don't think
> > he'll file one (that was yesterday), so I'll ask here. :-)

Same here. I found that after I installed VirtualBox, /dev/vboxdrv were
owned by root:root. So adding the user to vboxusers didn't make a
difference. I ended up chown'ing it to root:users, but root:vboxusers is
probably what you want to try.

> > 
> > Similar problem perhaps to bug 309089.
> > 
> > Kind thoughts,
> 
> I know this is trivial, but did they logout the user(s) after adding 
> them to the vboxusers group ?
> 
> Citing the VirtualBox User Manual:
> "The group vboxusers will be created during installation. Note that a 
> user who is going to run VirtualBox must be member of that group. Also 
> note that adding an active user to that group may require a restart of 
> the session of that user. This should be done manually after successful 
> installation of the package."
> 
> Best regards
> Sylvester
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Cheers,
Magnus

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