Hello, the output of the two commands is: johannes@JohannesOffice:~> grep vbox /etc/group vboxusers:x:457:johannes johannes@JohannesOffice:~> ls -l /usr/lib/virtualbox/ | grep vboxusers -rwsr-x--- 1 root vboxusers 166536 2020-07-28 00:54 VBoxHeadless -rwsr-x--- 1 root vboxusers 31360 2020-07-28 00:54 VBoxNetAdpCtl -rwsr-x--- 1 root vboxusers 166536 2020-07-28 00:54 VBoxNetDHCP -rwsr-x--- 1 root vboxusers 166536 2020-07-28 00:54 VBoxNetNAT -rwxr-xr-x 1 root vboxusers 14576 2020-07-28 00:54 VBoxPermissionMessage -rwsr-x--- 1 root vboxusers 166528 2020-07-28 00:54 VBoxSDL -rwxr-xr-x 1 root vboxusers 14576 2020-07-28 00:54 VBoxSUIDMessage -rwxr-xr-x 1 root vboxusers 14600 2020-07-28 00:54 VBoxUSB_DevRules -rwxr-xr-x 1 root vboxusers 2246640 2020-07-28 00:54 VirtualBox6 -rwsr-x--- 1 root vboxusers 166536 2020-07-28 00:54 VirtualBoxVM johannes@JohannesOffice:~ Actually I am beginning to doubt, that is is originally a vbox issue. May some other update had sideeffects on the permissions? However this would be very difficult to find out, I guess.....