VirtualBox installation
- Eadwine Rose
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Re: VirtualBox installation
No, I had to add myself to the group. No biggie at all using the user manager.
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Re: VirtualBox installation
From the virtualbox documentation it is not clear to me that a user is automatically added, although that has been the case for me in the past.
http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch02.html#idp50034496The Linux installers create the system user group vboxusers during installation. Any system user who is going to use USB devices from VirtualBox guests must be a member of that group. A user can be made a member of the group vboxusers through the GUI user/group management or at the command line with
sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers username
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Re: VirtualBox installation
not my way eitherEadwine Rose wrote:No, I had to add myself to the group. No biggie at all using the user manager.
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Re: VirtualBox installation
Been my way for years, nothing new under the sun and if it works.. *shrug*
Just have to turn off that bleep auto update.. turn off.. off.. OFF!!!
installing update 2 of 3..
Just have to turn off that bleep auto update.. turn off.. off.. OFF!!!
installing update 2 of 3..
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Re: VirtualBox installation
In my experience, sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't, although it usually is.richb wrote:From the virtualbox documentation it is not clear to me that a user is automatically added, although that has been the case for me in the past.
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LOL. Maybe it does or maybe it doesn't. But it does when it does and does not when it does not. But it usually does.DBeckett wrote:In my experience, sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't, although it usually is.richb wrote:From the virtualbox documentation it is not clear to me that a user is automatically added, although that has been the case for me in the past.
Just having some fun. I have the same experience.
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Exactly!richb wrote:LOL. Maybe it does or maybe it doesn't. But it does when it does and does not when it does not. But it usually does.DBeckett wrote:In my experience, sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't, although it usually is.richb wrote:From the virtualbox documentation it is not clear to me that a user is automatically added, although that has been the case for me in the past.
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Re: VirtualBox installation
I used the MX User manager to create a vboxusers group, added demo to it, made some other changes like setting the default timezone and paper size to match what we do here in NZ, added a few packages all while running live and then used the remastercc from the Live-USB to create a linuxfs.new file on the USB stick which is automatically used at next live-boot. The changes are carried over if I choose to install to hard disk too.
With this tool, you can customise the live-USB to whatever you want it to be and it's awesome!
With this tool, you can customise the live-USB to whatever you want it to be and it's awesome!
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Re: VirtualBox installation
My impression also was that the user was added to vboxusers on installation, although I remember cases in the past when this was not so. I've now had a good look back to VBox 4.0.6 & Mepis 11 and, as far as I can check, it has only been the first installation of VBox on a distro where I have had to manually add the user.
No matter how you update VBox, your user remains a member of vboxusers group and won't need to be added on a new VBox install. So I don't think that VBox ever adds the user to vboxusers, but on all updates it's already there and doesn't need to be added.
There is a case for populating this as a default, otherwise the problem will keep raising its head.
Phil
No matter how you update VBox, your user remains a member of vboxusers group and won't need to be added on a new VBox install. So I don't think that VBox ever adds the user to vboxusers, but on all updates it's already there and doesn't need to be added.
There is a case for populating this as a default, otherwise the problem will keep raising its head.
Phil
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- anticapitalista
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Re: VirtualBox installation
That should really be a request to VB or the debian packagers of VB IMO.
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