Physical VMDKs and the Virtualbox Main Shell
Posted: 13. Nov 2009, 03:55
Forgive me if I use any wrong terms. I'm still a newbie to Linux.
I'm following the tutorial to mount a native XP partition into virtualbox.
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9697
I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 and Virtualbox 3.0.10.
I've followed the tutorial and have set up a dummy account 'raw' to be a member of vboxusers and disks.
The problem I'm running into is that I cannot mount a VMDK image using the "Virtual Media Manager" GUI. I keep getting a VERR_ACCESS_DENIED error. My usergroup has r/w access to these files.
I found that I can add the VMDK file if I add my user account to group disks, but that defeats the purpose of having a dummy account.
How can I use the Virtual Media Manager securely and without getting the error message?
I'm following the tutorial to mount a native XP partition into virtualbox.
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9697
I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 and Virtualbox 3.0.10.
I've followed the tutorial and have set up a dummy account 'raw' to be a member of vboxusers and disks.
The problem I'm running into is that I cannot mount a VMDK image using the "Virtual Media Manager" GUI. I keep getting a VERR_ACCESS_DENIED error. My usergroup has r/w access to these files.
I found that I can add the VMDK file if I add my user account to group disks, but that defeats the purpose of having a dummy account.
How can I use the Virtual Media Manager securely and without getting the error message?