VBox Kernel Driver will not load with one user account.

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LinxPatrick
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Joined: 11. Apr 2010, 05:47
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VBox Kernel Driver will not load with one user account.

Post by LinxPatrick »

I have VirtualBox 5.0.10 installed on an OpenSUSE 13.2 host. On an OpenSUSE 13.2 guest I've installed the guest additions and everything works as long as I log in using the root user or the local admin user I created when installing OpenSUSE. The guest is joined to a Windows domain using SAMBA 4. When I log into the machine using the domain user account this message is generated "VBoxClien: Failed to connect to the VirtualBox kernel service. rc=VERR_ACCESS_DENIED. The main issue is that I cannot resize the desktop by dragging it.

The domain user account is in the domain admins and the domain users groups and also in the local users group.

I have another OpenSUSE 13.2 guest on the same host and use the domain login and the kernel service is working. I didn't have to do anything other than join the domain to get this machine working. On the machine that doesn't work I have tried leaving the domain and joining it again but that didn't help.

Permissions for everything I can think to check are the same on both guests so I must not be looking in the right place. What specific permissions should be set to allow my domain admin user account to work?
ucrasher
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Re: VBox Kernel Driver will not load with one user account.

Post by ucrasher »

Is that user member of the group vboxusers?
Thanks, ucrasher.
LinxPatrick
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Primary OS: Ubuntu other
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Re: VBox Kernel Driver will not load with one user account.

Post by LinxPatrick »

I posted on 12/1 and after a couple days I had to rebuild the machine for other reasons. Pretty sure I tried adding the user to the vboxusers group but users that don't have any issues are not in that group.
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