VBox failure

[NoOp]

On 06/12/2009 03:44 PM, Willis Taylor wrote:
> I have the Sun VirtualBox v.2.2.4 install and my WinXP runs perfectly
> but I need to test openSuSE for some friends and after creating the VM
> and setting the CD Drve and Floppy Ireceive the following message, with
> the Suse disk installed in the CD.
> 
> quote...
> Failed to start the virtual machine Suse.
> 
> 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).
> .../quote
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 

Yes. Try the VirtualBox mailing list; the list is generally quite
helpful & responsive.

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Community