Any vbox users out there?

Rollotamasi · 01-21-2007, 02:21 PM

I am trying to install vbox. The install went fine and creating a img went fine however I am having issuse starting a virtual machine. When I try to start it up I get this error.

VirtualBox kernel driver not accessible, permission problem.
At '/home/vbox/vbox/src/VBox/VMM/VM.cpp' (303) in int VMR3Create(void (*)(VM*, void*, int, const char*, unsigned int, const char*, const char*, char*), void*, int (*)(VM*, void*), void*, VM**).
VBox status code: -1909 VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_ACCESSIBLE
.

Result Code:
0x80004005
Component:
Console
Interface:
IConsole {1dea5c4b-0753-4193-b909-22330f64ec45}

Seeing as how I'm very new to linux un general I have NO idea how to go about correcting this. Any help would be much appericated!

Thanks!

kilgoretrout · 01-23-2007, 12:44 AM

From the vbox FAQs:

Quote:

If you get a message saying "VirtualBox kernel driver not accessible, permission problem" when starting VirtualBox right after installation, make sure that your user account is listed in the vboxusers group. The installation takes care creating that group, but you will need to manually add all users to it that should be allowed to run VirtualBox. As root, for each such user, run usermod -G vboxusers -a <userid>. If any of the affected users are currently logged in, they need to log out for the changes to take effect. In case any user already attempted to start VirtualBox before logging out (which launches the VBoxSVC service process with incorrect permissions), that user additionally needs to run VirtualBox shutdown from the command line to terminate the service. This solves the permission problems. (Alternatively, a reboot will help as well.)