On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 11:43:58PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:19:25 -0700 > Matthew Hall <mh...@mhcomputing.net> wrote: > > > What happens if you use strace or find the line of source logging the error > > message. Does it stop happening if you use sudo to load the VM temporarily? > > Well, I can tell you that as soon as the vbox user owns the device node > everything is well (gid still "disk"). Which implicitely answers your question > using root to load the guest. I did not test that, but I am sure it would > work, as long as root is the owner of the node.
To me this makes me wonder about bugs in the vbox kernel modules. Standard UNIX user and group checking would allow group access to the raw disk devices, but maybe vbox's modules check UIDs when they should be checking FS ACLs / POSIX permission bits? Either way, probably have to read some source code to find it, it could be buried under a big pile of C++ code. > Stephan Matthew. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. A cloud service to automate IT design, transition and operations 2. Dashboards that offer high-level views of enterprise services 3. A single system of record for all IT processes http://p.sf.net/sfu/servicenow-d2d-j _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
