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From: houghi on 24 Feb 2010 16:26
Might be related to the YaST issue.

When I start VirtualBox, I get the notice that the user is not added to
the group vboxusers. So I added the user with `usermod -A vboxusers
houghi` and as far as I can see it is now in that group:
penne:~ # id houghi
uid=1000(houghi) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),108(vboxusers),33(video)

Yet I still get the same message. What gives? I can run VirtualBox as
root, so no issues with that.

houghi
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From: Darrell Stec on 24 Feb 2010 18:15
houghi wrote:

> Might be related to the YaST issue.
>
> When I start VirtualBox, I get the notice that the user is not added to
> the group vboxusers. So I added the user with `usermod -A vboxusers
> houghi` and as far as I can see it is now in that group:
> penne:~ # id houghi
> uid=1000(houghi) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),108(vboxusers),33(video)
>
> Yet I still get the same message. What gives? I can run VirtualBox as
> root, so no issues with that.
>
> houghi

Don't take offense, I'm sure you cover all the basics, but did you restart
the virtualbox daemon after adding yourself to the vboxusers group?


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Later,
Darrell
From: LSMFT on 24 Feb 2010 21:21
houghi wrote:
> Might be related to the YaST issue.
>
> When I start VirtualBox, I get the notice that the user is not added to
> the group vboxusers. So I added the user with `usermod -A vboxusers
> houghi` and as far as I can see it is now in that group:
> penne:~ # id houghi
> uid=1000(houghi) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),108(vboxusers),33(video)
>
> Yet I still get the same message. What gives? I can run VirtualBox as
> root, so no issues with that.
>
> houghi

You have to restart the machine after. Make sure it is in fact checked
in Yast, users and groups.
From: Chris Cox on 24 Feb 2010 21:39
houghi wrote:
> Might be related to the YaST issue.
>
> When I start VirtualBox, I get the notice that the user is not added to
> the group vboxusers. So I added the user with `usermod -A vboxusers
> houghi` and as far as I can see it is now in that group:
> penne:~ # id houghi
> uid=1000(houghi) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),108(vboxusers),33(video)
>
> Yet I still get the same message. What gives? I can run VirtualBox as
> root, so no issues with that.

Log out of the GUI and log back in... should work.
From: Kevin Miller on 25 Feb 2010 18:23
houghi wrote:
> LSMFT wrote:
>> You have to restart the machine after. Make sure it is in fact checked
>> in Yast, users and groups.
>
> Did a reboot (just to be sure as I was to lazy to do anything else) and
> now it works. Thanks.

On Windows, reboots are necessary. On Linux, they're a good excuse to
go make a cup of coffee. It's amazing how many things a cup of coffee
can fix...

--
Kevin Miller
Juneau, Alaska
http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
In a recent poll, seven out of ten hard drives preferred Linux.
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