I was thinking to something more complicated but it was a silly error:
during the few tests I missed a "-R" in the chown command and one file had
a wrong group....

F.

2016-03-17 1:13 GMT+01:00 Kees Nuyt <k.n...@zonnet.nl>:

> On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 19:58:35 +0100, you wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >I would store my VM files in a dedicated folder under /home i.e. /home/vm.
> >If I start VBox from root everything works fine, but if run it as normal
> >user, it fails with a file access error.
> >
> >I used the vboxusers group for the folder/files and included the user in
> >the group. The "ls -l" command reports correct permissions. ("rw" for
> group
> >members on all the vbox files).
> >
> >Can you suggested something else to check ?
>
> Another thing to check: The directory itself should be writable too.
>
> > Thanks!
>
> You're welcome.
>
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> Regards,
> Kees Nuyt
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