issues with access to vbox

[Cheewha Palen]

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).


Hello all,

I am running ubuntu hardy heron 8.04 and wish to install windows xp to within virtual box. I keep getting this message. I go into system>admin>users&groups and under the vboxusers group I click the box next to user name (even tried both boxes which are my user name and root). I log out per instructions and re-log. Upon return both are still checked. Start up virtualbox and again receive this message??

The instructions I have read so far were not very intuitive to me so please if anyone can see a missed step or offer advice I am thankful!

Cheewha

[Perryg]

Try rebooting the machine instead of just logging out.

[Cheewha Palen]

Hi perryg,

Thank you for responding.

I tried this as well but there is no change in status. vboxusers group both users are still checked and I continued receiving the error message.

cheewha

[Perryg]

Try this on the host.

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sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

Record any warnings that you get.