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add member name to virtualbox

Asked by craiglarry

Install innotek virtualbox. When I run it, it fails and gives message that I don't have permission because my name is not in the group members. Running ubuntu 7.10 on amd athlon 2200.

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Andrew Barber (andrew-alex-barber) said : 		#1

# groups <login name>
[Shows a list of groups for that login name]
# useradd <login name> -g <first group in list> -G <second group>,<third group>,...,vboxusers

Should resolve the problem

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Best Kevin (kevinrs91) said : 		#2

If you need more help go to and he give it to you step by step http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2399604268734133035&q=virtualbox&total=230&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

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craiglarry (craiglarry-gmail) said : 		#3

Thanks a lot Kevin. That solved the problem. Now have both winxp and ubuntu 6.06lts running virtually on ubuntu7.10.