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Date:      Mon, 9 Nov 2009 13:55:20 +0100
From:      "Johan Hendriks" <Johan@double-l.nl>
To:        "Adam K Kirchhoff" <adamk@voicenet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Can not start Virtualbox
Message-ID:  <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCBA57190@w2003s01.double-l.local>
References:  <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCB0111BF@w2003s01.double-l.local><20091109070915.184f4dee@memory.visualtech.com><57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCBA5718F@w2003s01.double-l.local> <20091109074518.3ab8c4be@memory.visualtech.com>

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>> >>=20
>> >> Hello=20
>> >> I have installed VirtualBox on My FreeBSD RELENG_8  i386.
>> >> When i try to start VirtualBox as a normal user account i get the
>> following error.
>> >> VirtualBox: supR3HardenedVerifyDir: Cannot trust the directory
".":
>> not owned by root (st_uid=3D1001)
>> >>=20
>> >> What am i doing wrong?
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>> >Your user needs to be in the vboxusers group.
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>> >Adam
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>> I have the following line in /etc/group
>> vboxusers:*:920:johan
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>Did you add your user to that group by editing the file manually?  I've
>noticed that when I do that, I have to reboot for the permission to
>kick in for some reason.

>Adam

Yes i did it manually, but the machine has been restarted already.

Regards,
Johan


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