[CentOS] VirtualBox and CentOS

Tue Dec 8 17:04:41 UTC 2009
Max Hetrick <maxhetrick at verizon.net>

Lars Hecking wrote:


>  This is the bit that won't work. The mount options seem to have no effect:
> dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec  8 12:08 001
> dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec  8 12:08 002
> dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec  8 12:08 003
> dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec  8 12:08 004
> dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec  8 12:08 005
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec  8 16:47 devices

Not to doubt you, but you made sure to put your group id in 
devgid=some_number?

>  ... and this one resets the permissions on /dev/vboxdrv to 600.

Hmmm, the permissions stay for me.

I too struggled to get USB to work, it seems to be pretty lacking with 
Linux support in VirtualBox, which is a big downfall. Although, I had a 
lot of issues with permissions with VMware Server as well when I ran it. 
I guess pick your poison.

This process works for me though, so I'm not sure what else to suggest 
to help you out.

Regards,
Max