VirualBox on Hardy

[David Lemcoe]

Maybe try chmoding the mountpoint of the partition.

On 4/27/09, Willis Taylor <th1bill at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I have installed virtualbox and created the virtual machine WinXP.  When
> i try to start it to put Windows there I receive the following message.
> I'm running Ubuntu Hardy and I have, using the GUI given myself and root
> permission to use the vbox and now I'm lost.
>
> Failed to start the virtual machine WinXP.
>
> Cannot open host device '/dev/sdb' for read/write access. Check the
> permissions of that device ('/bin/ls -l /dev/sdb'): Most probably you
> need to be member of the device group. Make sure that you logout/login
> after changing the group settings of the current user
> (VERR_ACCESS_DENIED).
>
> Unknown error creating VM (VERR_ACCESS_DENIED).
>
>
>
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