hello all,

recently i installed virtualbox 1.6.4 on my fedora 9
in virtual box i installed windows XP by logging as a root user!

the installation was completed and i could use the Windows XP in root without any problem.

now i tried to use it in general user mode, so i added the user 'thinesh' to the vboxusers group.

eventhen..i logged in user 'thinesh' and started virutual box OS 'windows XP', the virtual box OS window says as

and windows XP is not booting at all

i tried searching the forum and could not find the solution for this.

can you people, help me

thanks

Try changing the permissions of the VIRTUAL BOX hard disks. I think you will find that root only has access to them.

They should be in

~/.VirtualBox/Machines

make the current user owner of all the files

I do changed it as you mentioned.., it works :-) now!

thanks jax8.

but i have to invoke the virtual box thru command line as

#sudo VBoxSDL -vm "WINDOWS XP"

this boots the OS without any issues.. so far..

but invoking the Virutal Box from the Menu or Desktop shortcut, shows error window as
anyhow.. it works now.. in other way.