[ubuntu-za] Virtualbox hiccups

Jan Greeff jan at verslank.net
Sun Nov 11 14:07:16 UTC 2012


Thanks Jedri, username seems to be fine:
jan at jan:~$ groups
jan adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare
jan at jan:~$ id
uid=1000(jan) gid=1000(jan) 
groups=1000(jan),4(adm),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),46(plugdev),109(lpadmin),124(sambashare)


On 11/11/2012 15:51, Jedri Visser wrote:
> I installed it the other day. I added my user with:
> usermod -a -G vboxusers <username>
>
> You can make sure the group exists with the command:
> groups
>
> and see if you belong to the group with:
> id
>
> I could not see the group and it did not work until I logged out and 
> back in again.
>
> Regards
> Jedri Visser
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Wayne Abroue <plettpc at gmail.com 
> <mailto:plettpc at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Jan Greeff <jan at verslank.net
>     <mailto:jan at verslank.net>> wrote:
>
>         Can someone please help? My last updates included some on
>         Oracle Virtualbox. Since these updates were downloaded, my
>         cursor disappears altogether when I click on the Vbox.
>
>         The system tells me that "VirtualBox is not currently allowed
>         to access USB devices. You can change this by adding your user
>         to the 'vboxusers' group. Please see the user manual for a
>         more detailed explanation." The user manual has not revealed
>         anything that helps and the Oracle website and "help" facility
>         is one of the most frustrating and infuriating websites that I
>         have ever come across. I have tried there twice in the last
>         few years but every time I run into so many frustrating dead
>         ends that I just give up.
>
>
>         I am running vbox version 4.2.4r81684 on Ubuntu 12.04.
>
>         Result Code:
>
>         	
>
>         NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x00004005)
>
>         Component:
>
>         	
>
>         Host
>
>         Interface:
>
>         	
>
>         IHost {30678943-32df-4830-b413-931b25ac86a0}
>
>         Callee:
>
>         	
>
>         IMachine {22781af3-1c96-4126-9edf-67a020e0e858}
>
>
>         Best wishes,
>
>         Jan
>

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