On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:15 PM, JD jd1008@gmail.com wrote:
I have a flash disk which is detected as /dev/sdc
I need to use it as a virtualbox device. So I created a vmdk for the disk and registered it. Furthermore, virtualbox requires that in order to use the device, the device must belong to the group vboxusers. So I chmod'ed it to vboxusers.
I'm recalling this from memory so I hope it's accurate, but...
Why don't you use it as a USB device instead?
Also, I'm not completely sure that the disk has to be owned by vboxusers. If you run virtualbox as yourself, and you're in the disks group, I think that is sufficient.
But somehow magically, it reverts back to being owned by the group disks.
Do you mean when you unplug and re-plug the flash drive? This is due to udev so nothing really to do with selinux.
I have disabled selinux. So I have no idea what/who is changing it back. This is the reason why I am asking this list. The virtualbox list does not seem to have an answer.
Easy way: access it as a usb device Harder way: add yourself to disk(s?) group and use it as a raw disk vmdk. Hardest way: modify the udev rules to make vboxusers the owner.
Richard