Hello Chanchao, > I don't find anythign about this in the manual, but if I run VirtualBox > from the menu then it fails with an error when starting the guest. > > If I run it as 'gksudo VirtualBox' then everything is fine. It even > finds the guest that I created as and stored in my normal-user account. > > It's a bit strange though, after it crashed once or twice and then I run > as root again it then DID want to use the /root folder to look for > virtual machines. Killing all related processes didn't really help. > > So what's the preferred way of running it? If it's as a normal user, > then are there any permissions that need to be set? (Ubuntu Edgy)
Have you read the FAQ (http://virtualbox.org/wiki/User_FAQ)? Does your user belong to the vboxusers group? -- (\ (\ Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Sincerely yours ( ^_~) (_(")(") Sven Jacobs _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
