File permissions problem

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Sun Aug 17 06:16:00 UTC 2008


David McNally wrote:
> I'm trying to run Virtual Box OSE, which says that it needs to be able
> to read and write a file in /dev/vboxdrv/ that it can't access.

Add yourself to the vboxusers group. Someone else can probably tell you 
how to do it with a Gnome GUI, but if you use a terminal you can do it 
with this command:

sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers $USER

Then logout and login again. Now you should be able to run VirtualBox.


Nils




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