virtualbox

[David A. Bandel]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Keith Antoine <kantoine at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> Need a bit of help with the newly installed VB.         t installed fine but I am
> unable to access the dvd drive (ASUS DRW-2014L1T (/dev/sr0)) to install XP as
> the guest OS. Actuall neither the floppy nor the cd are available (not seen).
> However they both work on the host OpenSUSE 11.1.
>
> Yes I did add myself in the /etc/group file
> vboxusers:!:1000:kantoine
>
> This is the resuly of a query in terminal re permissions:
> kantoine at c220-237-82-233:~> /bin/ls -l /dev/sr0
> brw-rw----+ 1 root disk 11, 0 2009-01-22 05:31 /dev/sr0
>
> It still appears to be a permissions problem but I cannot see it, maybe my
> glasses aren't good enough:))

Definitely permissions.

Only root and those users belonging to group disk can use the drive.
I suggest as root you:
chmod 666 /dev/sr0

A better fix would be to add the user running Virtual Box (kantoine?)
to group disk (but remember to logout and login again, then check you
are part of group disk by running `groups`).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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