Hello Seth. Many thanks for your reply to my email. I am still frustrated with not being able to start the VirtualBox. The stubborn dialog box kept on popping up with VirtualBox - Error. Tell me if I am correct in locating terminal: Click Applications => Accessories => Terminal and then type in "echo $USER" or "sudo adduser Jim Kvarnberg vboxusers" after "~$". Should I type in my username? I already done this and I already tried different ways several times. Should I make it saved or what? When I logged out and then logged in, same things happened - nothing changed. I may be an old dog struggling to learn a new trick! LOL. Your further help will be very much appreciated. Thank you. Jim
Quoting Seth Keiper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:16 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am trying to install WINDOWS XP on an UBUNTU 8.04 AMD 64 machine with > the > > SUN's VirtualBox 1.6.2, but a dialog box popped up, "VirtualBox - Error. > > Failed > > to start the virtual machine. The virtual Box kernel driver is not > > accessible > > to the current user. Make sure that the user has write permissions for > > /dev/vboxdrv by adding them to the vboxusers groups. You will need to > > logout > > for the change to take effect. VBox status code: - 1909 > > (VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_Accessible)." > > I am a solo user of the PC. Who is the current user? I do not > understand > > the > > whole matter. Can you please help clarify this for me? A solution will > be > > appreciated. Thank you. Jim > > > > There are two users when using GNU/Linux OSes. Your normal user and Root. > open terminal up and type: echo $USER > that is your normal user. > you want to do: > sudo adduser your_normal_user_name vboxusers > then you need to log out and log back in > and you should be able to use virtualbox (: > > > > > > PS I tried multiple times - Ubuntu 8.04, Windows XP pro, Kubuntu 8.04 > and > > then > > back to Ubuntu 8.04 - without any luck. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 3webXS HiSpeed Dial-up...surf up to 5x faster than regular dial-up > alone... > > just $14.90/mo...visit www.get3web.com for details > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > vbox-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3webLD gives you the lowest long distance rates out there...Canada calling as low as 2 cents/min...U.S. as low as 4 cents/min...visit www.get3web.com for details _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
