After installing the new VirtualBox 4.0 on my Linux system it does not want to start my Windows guest VMs any longer and shows me a VERR_SUPLIB_OWNER_NOT_ROOT error.
The log file has more details: 00:00:01.901 VirtualBox 4.0.0 r69151 linux.x86 (Dec 22 2010 15:13:19) release log 00:00:01.901 Log opened 2010-12-29T16:11:11.981849000Z 00:00:01.901 OS Product: Linux 00:00:01.901 OS Release: 2.6.36 00:00:01.901 OS Version: #1 SMP Sun Oct 31 09:39:05 GMT 2010 00:00:01.901 DMI Product Name: MS-7238 00:00:01.901 DMI Product Version: 110 00:00:01.902 Host RAM: 2024MB RAM, available: 1095MB 00:00:01.902 Executable: /usr1/VirtualBox-4.0.0/VirtualBox 00:00:01.902 Process ID: 19572 00:00:01.902 Package type: LINUX_32BITS_GENERIC 00:00:01.906 pdmR3LoadR0U: pszName="VMMR0.r0" rc=VERR_SUPLIB_OWNER_NOT_ROOT szErr="The owner is not root: '/usr1'" And yes, that is correct, the owner of my /usr1 directory is not root, but what the heck does VirtualBox suddenly care about that? On my system /usr1 is a directory where I have installed a number of larger applications, most files there and the directory itself belong to a non-root owner. Best regards, Jochen Roderburg RRZK University of Cologne Robert-Koch-Str. 10 Tel.: +49-221/478-7024 D-50931 Koeln E-Mail: [email protected] Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
