Zitat von Jochen Roderburg <[email protected]>: > 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.
I've tried to work around this issue now by introducing an additional directory level owned by root between /usr1 and the actual VirtualBox installation directories, but that does not help either. It seems to insist that the whole installation path has to be owned by root. Any idea how to get rid of this nuisance other than changing the source and compiling the thing myself? 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
