The fix above, sudo chgrp vboxusers /dev/vboxdrv, worked for me.
Gutsy Gibbon 7.10
virtual Box 1.5.0.-OSE
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/dev/vboxdrv not owned by vboxusers
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This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-ose - 1.5.6-dfsg-2ubuntu1
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virtualbox-ose (1.5.6-dfsg-2ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low
* Merge from Debian unstable (LP: #202727). Remaining Ubuntu changes:
- Move virtualbox-ose-modules from recommends
to depends for virtualbox-
It should have been fixed since some months in Debian (and Ubuntu).
This might be an udev problem then.
Is this only for amd64?
>From the Debian bug report:
For the record, udev uses the kernel inotify feature to learn about new
rules. If for whatever reason (not compiled in e.g.) this didn't
Same problem in hardy (8.04 beta) with kernel 2.6.24-8-generic and
virtualbox 1.5.4dfsg-4ubuntu1
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It might be that one needs to restart the box. I have removed the
vboxdrv module then modprobed it again, and the device was created with
the proper ownership and mode:
$ ls -l /dev/vboxdrv
crw-rw+ 1 root vboxusers 10, 62 2008-02-18 16:17 /dev/vboxdrv
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/dev/vboxdrv not owned by vboxusers
It looke like, that at least on amd64 the udev rule is not reloaded correctly.
After installing the packages it creates a /dev/vboxdrv device, but with
root:root 0660 not as stated in udev/rules.d/50-virtualbox-ose.rules as
root:vboxusers 0660.
I didn't restart my box, but logoff/login to a new
Hi, again in hardy, /dev/vboxdrv is not accessible for group vboxusers.
The permissions are still 0660
Regards,
\sh
** Changed in: virtualbox-ose (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
Status: Fix Released => New
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This should be fixed as well in gutsy.
** Changed in: virtualbox-ose (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Released
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** Changed in: virtualbox-ose (Debian)
Status: Unknown => Fix Released
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$ uname -a
Linux andy-desktop 2.6.23-rc7 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Sep 20 18:30:59 EDT 2007
x86_64 GNU/Linux
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #440552
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=440552
** Also affects: virtualbox-ose (Debian) via
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