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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, Magnus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
