SUCCESS! Thanks a lot, Frank, you were right all along!
I can confirm now that some KDE daemons somehow block the VirtualBox daemon from accessing the CD drive. This helps: - Make sure, that your CD is not mounted. - Make sure, that your CD is not going to be automounted, once a medium is inserted in the drive. For this sake: - Unload automount kernel modules, like autofs4 - Remove all automount options from /etc/fstab - Stop KDE daemons "Gerätebenachrichtigung" (sorry, don't know the English name of that daemon) and "KDED-Medienverwaltung" (this can be done in the KDE Kontrol Center) - Make sure that your user has read/write access to the device file representing your CD drive (usually /dev/cdrom or something to which /dev/cdrom links; on my system /dev/cdrom is a softlink to /dev/hdc); eg make the user a member of group cdrom (or whatever group owns the device file on your system) - Make sure that your user has read/write access to /dev/vboxdrv; eg make the user a member of group vboxusers I can also confirm, that other Slackware didn't face all the trouble, because they are typical Slackers: They prefer a lean window manager like Fluxbox over a 'bloated' desktop like Gnome or KDE, and therefore no daemon conflicting with the Vbox daemon got in their way. I am really grateful for your excellent support, Frank! So far my first impressions are, that VirtualBox is a very good product with an excellent team behind it. Good luck! Alex _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
