What permisson to change?

[Steven Stern]

On 12/27/2011 05:14 PM, Lucélio Gomes de Freitas wrote:
> 
> Steven Stern,
> 
> Thanks again for your reply.
> 
> Em 27-12-2011 13:37, Steven Stern escreveu:
>> On 12/27/2011 03:27 PM, Lucélio Gomes de Freitas wrote:
>>> Steven Stern,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your reply.
>>>
>>> Em 27-12-2011 12:48, Steven Stern escreveu:
>>>> On 12/27/2011 02:44 PM, Lucélio Gomes de Freitas wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I installed "VirtualBox-OSE.x86_64 4.1.6-4.fc16
>>>>> @rpmfusion-free-updates" on a new machine with F16.
>>>>>
>>>>> For testing purpose I defined a machine and on boot I got the message:
>>>>>
>>>>> Fail to open a sesion for Virtual machine WinVista64_A.
>>>>> Failed to load VMMR0.r0 (VERR-SUPLIB_OWNER_NOT_ROOT).
>>>>>
>>>>> Any help would be well come.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>> Add your account to the group "vboxusers", then logout and log back in.
>>>>
>>> I did this(take out of the group logout/in + add to the group logout/in)
>>> and unfortunately nothing changed. The same messages again.
>>>
>>> Ps: I tested this before.
>>>
> 
>> Check this thread:
>> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/%5Bf14%5D-virtualbox-ose-4-0-2-verr_suplib_owner_not_root-error-885305/
> 
>> Make sure /usr/lib/virtualbox/ and everything below is owned by root:root
> 
> Problem solved.  I never sudo to root except to do yum updates.
> What a crazy.  Only this problem: How could /usr/lib64 be owned by
> Lucelio:Lucelio
> Probably the installation script did something wrong.
> 
> Thanks again for the pointer.
> 


If you're going to be using USB connected devices, you'll do better
using the version directly from Oracle at https://www.virtualbox.org/

The also provide a repo that works with yum.  Scroll down the page  to
find it here: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
> 

-- 
-- Steve