Virtual Box installer needs some fine-tuning?

[LaughingBoy]

I downloaded the All distributions version to run on my Fedora Core 6 system, which appeared to install just fine. There were no outward signs of failure in any case.

It was installed with this command line:

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su -c "sh VirtualBox_1.3.8_Linux_x86.run install /usr/local/VirtualBox"

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I only just found out about the new user group added, so I added my user to that group, and tried to run it.

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$ VirtualBox 
Could not find VirtualBox installation. Please reinstall.

It doesn't surprise me though - every directory created was given permissions

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drwxr-x--- root:root

How is any user other than root going to find these files

I believe they should be at least chgrp'd to root:vboxuser, yes

[michael]

Unfortunately I was unable to reproduce this (I tried installing on a Fedora Core 6 guest, which should be as good as long as I don't need to start any VMs). The directory /usr/local/VirtualBox was created with the permissions drwxr-xr-x and the files all world readible. Perhaps you could take a look at your setup to see if you can find any reason why it behaves differently? That would help us to fix the problem.

[LaughingBoy]

Hi Michael,

After seeing your results, I was reminded that the default umask for the system was set to 0027.

I have recursively set the ownership of /usr/local/VirtualBox, and /etc/vbox to root:vboxusers and this has fixed the problem.

I think the error message of "Could not find VirtualBox installation. Please reinstall", is a bit misleading, as re-installing wouldn't have fixed the problem.

Perhaps modify the installation directory to have ownership and permissions of root:vboxusers drwxrwxr-x

[Ulrich Guenther]

I have the same problem. Thie problem is that vbox.org is missing.

[Sasquatch]

I have the same problem. Thie problem is that vbox.org is missing.

Could you give some more information? Vbox.org should not be a part of VBox, as it's more of a domain name extension, or backup for a file to indicate it was an original file.