VirualBox on Hardy

[Willis Taylor]

Answers for bot questions;

1.  I have removed root and rebooted but the same condition prevails.
2.  I used the GUI to use gdebi while logged into my account.

the following is the message;

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).


and this is what is displayed for Details;

Result Code: 


NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)


Component: 


Console


Interface: 


IConsole
{9511bc54-15ee-4ddf-808e-472aba03809c}