make a folder readable

[Nikolay Kisyov]

Nikolay Kisyov wrote:
> William Biggs wrote:
>> I got it to work thank you On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 11:58 -0700, NoOp 
>> wrote:
>>> On 08/27/2008 11:51 AM, William Biggs wrote:
>>>> here the error ?
>>> Yes. Post the error message you get.
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
>>>>> bill biggs wrote:
>>>>>> I install sun virtualbox and when I try to start it . I need to make
>>>>>> the dev folder readable .How do I make it readable for a user ?
>>>>> Do you mean the "/dev" folder? That is readable for users. Can you 
>>>>> post
>>>>> the exact error message you get? Then it is probably easier to 
>>>>> find out
>>>>> what the problem is.
>>>>>
>>
>>
> you need to give your user access to /dev/vboxdrv . just do the 
> following "sudo gpasswd -a username vboxusers" , logout and log back 
> in. don`t forget to replace "username" with your actual username :)