VirualBox on Hardy

[Preston Hagar]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Willis Taylor <th1bill at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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).
>

It may be an issue with the device(s) you are trying to attach on
boot.  From a terminal, run the following and send the results to the
list:

VBoxManage showvminfo <vm name>

where <vm name> is replaced by the name of your WinXP vm that you
created.  If you are not sure the exact name of your vm, you can first
run:

VBoxManage list vms

and it should list the name to replace <vm name> with in quotes.

Thanks,

Preston