Error when attempting to start VM
Posted: 23. Mar 2009, 20:14
Good morning all (my time 
),
I was just trying to get host interface networking working on a W2K3 Server VM and after adding a new virtual NIC I attempted to start the VM and got this error:
Failed to open '' for read/write access. Please check the permissions of that node. Either run 'chmod 0666 /dev/net/tun' or change the group of that node and make yourself a member of that group. Make sure that these changes are permanent, especially if you are using udev.
VBox status code: -3100 (VERR_HOSTIF_INIT_FAILED).
I am so new to Linux that I attemted a search in the Ubuntu forums for a fix thinking that it was some sort of permissions issue and I got this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=953867
...which had a post in it with a command to run, so I tried the command:
sudo chgrp paul /dev/net/tun
...and now the VM has a grayed out "start" choice along with every other choice (can't even get into the settings).
I even tried to disable the virtual NIC, no go.
Any ideas anyone?
),I was just trying to get host interface networking working on a W2K3 Server VM and after adding a new virtual NIC I attempted to start the VM and got this error:
Failed to open '' for read/write access. Please check the permissions of that node. Either run 'chmod 0666 /dev/net/tun' or change the group of that node and make yourself a member of that group. Make sure that these changes are permanent, especially if you are using udev.
VBox status code: -3100 (VERR_HOSTIF_INIT_FAILED).
I am so new to Linux that I attemted a search in the Ubuntu forums for a fix thinking that it was some sort of permissions issue and I got this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=953867
...which had a post in it with a command to run, so I tried the command:
sudo chgrp paul /dev/net/tun
...and now the VM has a grayed out "start" choice along with every other choice (can't even get into the settings).
I even tried to disable the virtual NIC, no go.
Any ideas anyone?