This error occurs if you don’t have permission to access the Virtual Box. It happens be caused the you are not belong to the vboxusers group.
taufanlubis@toshiba:~$ ls -l /dev/vboxdrv
crw-rw—- 1 root vboxusers 10, 63 2007-11-27 21:04 /dev/vboxdrv
There are 2 ways to fix it.
First, give read and write permission to users.
taufanlubis@toshiba:~$ sudo chmod a+rw /dev/vboxdrv
[sudo] password for taufanlubis:
taufanlubis@toshiba:~$ ls -l /dev/vboxdrv
crw-rw-rw- 1 root vboxusers 10, 63 2007-11-27 21:04 /dev/vboxdrv
taufanlubis@toshiba:~$
The first way is for temporary permission. Mean if you restart/turn on your computer the setting will be gone.
So, you have change the permission every time you start the Virtual Box.
Second, put your name into vboxusers group.Open System > Administration > Users and Groups > Manage Groups
Click properties, mark your user name and click OK button to save the setting.
Close all ‘User and Groups’ screen. Now, you don’t have to change the permission every time you run Virtual Box.
I want to thank you for the tip it worked, I went to several different sites and didnt get any usefull information.
So THANK YOU
Thank you
It worked!
Julie
You should NOT give read/write permission to ALL users.. the default permissions on /dev/vboxdrv are just fine.
So long as the necessary users are in the vboxusers group (and they have logged out and logged back if necessary) then everything will work.
Yes, you are right.
But, it’s no problem as long as, you are the only one who use the computer.
So, just use the second method.
good day!
i have followed your steps going through the system> administration>users and groups and mark the user into groups, but sir still did not work within my PC.
i am very new to Ubunto just this first time to use this OS.
by the way i’ve do the steps while still updating UBUNTO
I did what you said above but still got exactly the same error. Any ideas what to do now?
Andrew
Hello. appears a problem with the 1st url you presented : it returns 404 error