Comments on: VirtualBox OSE Debian install howto

By: hildebrand

hildebrand — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:51:49 +0000

Thanks for the excellent instructions. I had independently tried but had some problems with the module. (Virtualbox didn’t seem happy with it. Was asking for some recompilation). After running the module-assistant bit it started working.

As for badiane’s query when you login the user settings get updated and are fixed for the session. Since you have made a change to the setting you need to logout and login so that the changes get into use.
There must be a login script which is run for doing this.

By: Utilizzare VirtualBox su Ubuntu 8.04 at …DaveSpace:

Utilizzare VirtualBox su Ubuntu 8.04 at …DaveSpace: — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:04:37 +0000

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By: badiane

badiane — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:05:58 +0000

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# groups
[Shows a list of groups for that login name]
# useradd -g -G ,,…,vboxusers

You must logout then login again to apply changes.

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My question is why should I logout? If the system on which is running is very why should I log out? After added one’s account to the group it can be verified by running id. What exactly does logging out do that can’t be replicated manually to avoid having to log out. It’s absurd to think that on a system which is by “nature” multitasking, I have to stop what I’m doing so that an application can realize that I’m now part of a group.

Does anyone know what happens on a logout which makes it usable?

By: chirale

chirale — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:12:02 +0000

Add vboxdrv to your /etc/modules file from a sudo/root shell.

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Change framebuffer resolution « chirale — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:26:32 +0000

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By: tim

tim — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:00:03 +0000

How can I get the necessary module vboxdrv to automatically load at startup?

By: chirale

chirale — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:30:38 +0000

I don’t remember an error like this, but Virtualbox FAQ suggests the following:

# groups
[Shows a list of groups for that login name]
# useradd -g -G ,,…,vboxusers

You must logout then login again to apply changes.

By: Jose Arenas

Jose Arenas — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:05:10 +0000

Hi, i have installed virtualbox-ose with your tutorial, but when i try to run it, this message appears:

The VirtualBox kernel driver is not accessible to the current user. Make sure that the user has write permissions for /dev/vboxdrv by adding them to the vboxusers groups. You will need to logout for the change to take effect..
VBox status code: -1909 (VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_ACCESSIBLE).

Código Resultado:
0×80004005
Componente:
Console
Interface:
IConsole {1dea5c4b-0753-4193-b909-22330f64ec45}

I have try with this:

# sudo adduser ‘jose’ vboxusers

but the message appears again.

By: Alles was schnuckelig.eu ist...

Alles was schnuckelig.eu ist... — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:42:56 +0000

Virtualbox, Debian Sid and my AMD64

There are a lot of virtualization solutions around and a played around with VMware a bit. It’s quite comfortable to use the VMware converter to convert your local Windows installation to a virtual machine.

By: Muammar

Muammar — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:04:56 +0000

Very useful the information. I am installing XP and I am getting no problems at the moments. Regards.