http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543792 User masterpatricko@gmail.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543792#c525243 Summary: VirtualBox OSE Guest Additions kernel device has wrong permissions Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Milestone 8 Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: X11 Applications AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: masterpatricko@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de CC: mseben@novell.com Found By: --- Created an attachment (id=320827) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=320827) udev rules file to set /dev/vboxuser to 0666 Reproducible: Always VirtualBox-ose guest additions does not successfully start the X11 client program on startup as intended. package versions: xorg-x11-driver-virtualbox-ose-3.0.6-50.1.i586 virtualbox-ose-kmp-default-3.0.6_2.6.31.0_10-5.2.i586 virtualbox-ose-guest-tools-3.0.6-50.1.i586 Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start a VirtualBox guest machine with OSE guest additions 2. ps ax | grep VBoxClient Expected Results: VBoxClient is listed as a running process, i.e. autoresize and clipboard are working Actual Results: VBoxClient is not running, so autoresize and clipboard are not working The installed script /etc/X11/xinit/xinit.d/vboxadd-xclient.sh is meant to start /usr/bin/VBoxClient which allows for automatic window resizing, and bidirectional clipboard support. However starting /usr/bin/VBoxClient is actually failing with the following message: $ VBoxClient --clipboard -d Failed to connect to the VirtualBox kernel service The cause of this is that character device /dev/vboxuser has the wrong permissions and is not writeable by non-root user. See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=530302 Solution: create udev rule to set device /dev/vboxuser to 0666 not 0660 e.g. /etc/udev/rules.d/60-vboxadd.rules KERNEL=="vboxadd", NAME="vboxadd", OWNER="root", MODE="0660" KERNEL=="vboxuser", NAME="vboxuser", OWNER="root", MODE="0666" (see attachment, testing and working on milestone 8 with above package versions) might be related to bnc#525243 and bnc#521342, this also fixes 3D acceleration support -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.