Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 16:50:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org>, freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running VirtualBox as non-root user Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.2109291649300.7138@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <CA%2ByoEx9iL_%2BjHH1tmmt9qAQRYTxq1uO_hscx0VKZ9%2BEL=f0DOQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2ByoEx9iL_%2BjHH1tmmt9qAQRYTxq1uO_hscx0VKZ9%2BEL=f0DOQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 29 Sep 2021, Mario Lobo wrote: > Hi; > > Here is what I've done so far: > > - Created user vbox and put it in vboxuser group > - Went as far as chown -R vbox:vboxuser /usr/local/lib/virtualbox > - Executables are with the SUiD bit set > -r-s--x--- 1 vbox vboxusers 32064 Sep 21 22:18 VBoxSDL > -r-s--x--- 1 vbox vboxusers 16064 Sep 21 22:18 VBoxNetAdpCtl > -r-s--x--- 1 vbox vboxusers 32064 Sep 21 22:18 VBoxNetDHCP > -r-s--x--- 1 vbox vboxusers 32064 Sep 21 22:18 VBoxNetNAT > -r-s--s--- 1 vbox vboxusers 32352 Sep 22 17:55 VirtualBoxVM Is the group name vboxuser or vboxusers? I see both above. > - Imported a test VM > - Ran the VM as root to make sure it's working > - started VirtualBox as user vbox, and it starts fine > > VirtualBox GUI starts fine as user vbox but when I try to start the > test VM from it, I get: > > Effective UID is not root (euid=1001 egid=920 uid=1001 gid=1001) > (rc=-10) where: SUPR3HardenedMain what: 2 VERR_PERMISSION_DENIED (-10) > - Permission denied. > > Starting it from VirtualBoxVM --startvm test issues the same error: > > VirtualBoxVM: Error -10 in SUPR3HardenedMain! > VirtualBoxVM: Effective UID is not root (euid=1001 egid=920 uid=1001 > gid=1001) > where: SUPR3HardenedMain > what: 2 > VERR_PERMISSION_DENIED (-10) - Permission denied. > > Any pointer for anything else I should be doing or is missing? > > Thanks, > -- > Mario Lobo > http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br > FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org
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