Need help in setting up Virtual Box in gentoo

manu_leo · Guru Joined: 20 Jan 2014 Posts: 513 Location: India

Hi Experts,

I am trying to setup a Virtual box in Gentoo Server, but facing some issues with it. I have followed the below link :-

http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/VirtualBox

dnial · n00b Joined: 14 Mar 2007 Posts: 23 Location: Cincinnati OH

VirtualBox

Case sensitive.

manu_leo · Guru Joined: 20 Jan 2014 Posts: 513 Location: India

Thanks dnial. Still no go.

dnial · n00b Joined: 14 Mar 2007 Posts: 23 Location: Cincinnati OH

root #gpasswd -a <user> vboxguest
Changes will not take effect until the user signs out and then signs in again (re-logins).

manu_leo · Guru Joined: 20 Jan 2014 Posts: 513 Location: India

Appreciate that. I exitted out from the user, logged in as root, and then made the below changes :-

dnial · n00b Joined: 14 Mar 2007 Posts: 23 Location: Cincinnati OH

I think you also have to create virtualbox users group.
I missed that part on my last round with virtualbox.

SirRobin2318 · Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 10:46 am Post subject:

You also have to be part of the vboxusers group.

manu_leo · Guru Joined: 20 Jan 2014 Posts: 513 Location: India

User 'arun' is already a part of that group.

dnial · n00b Joined: 14 Mar 2007 Posts: 23 Location: Cincinnati OH

Post output of 'groups'.

Mine looks like this:
wheel audio video games users vboxusers dnial vboxguest

manu_leo · Guru Joined: 20 Jan 2014 Posts: 513 Location: India

Thanks for pointing this out. Mine looks like

manu_leo · Guru Joined: 20 Jan 2014 Posts: 513 Location: India

However when I try to add the groups, it says that they exists.