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Ok. I had Virtualbox 1.5.4(?) downloaded from the Virtualbox site. Running Ubuntu 8.04. Everything was working beautifully. Downloaded the 1.6.2 .deb from Sun's site today and installed. Everything installed correctly. ran sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup and it finished correctly. I made sure my user account was still in /etc/group vboxusers (or whatever it is). It was. I checked the perms on /dev/vboxdrv. 660 root vboxusers. Everything looking good. Fire up virtualbox. I see all my VMs and when I try to start one, it goes to aborted. I removed the logs from the VM and nothing is getting written to the logs. I created a symlink from my user's home dir .VirtualBox dir to root's .VirtualBox dir and root can fire up and run all the VMs. This leads me to believe there is a permission problem somewhere. I just don't know where. I'd welcome any help to try to get these so I don't have to sudo virtualbox, but for now that is a workaround.

Thanks,
Ph03nix

Please reboot your machine and start a VM as normal user like this: Then analyze the resulting log for permission problems. If you don't find the reason, open a bug report and attach the strace.log file the the report (please don't cut'n'paste).