On 05/03/11 14:21, Richard Shaw wrote:
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:15 PM, JD<jd1008(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a flash disk which is detected as /dev/sdc
>
> I need to use it as a virtualbox device.
> So I created a vmdk for the disk and registered it.
> Furthermore, virtualbox requires that in order to use
> the device, the device must belong to the group
> vboxusers.
> So I chmod'ed it to vboxusers.
I'm recalling this from memory so I hope it's accurate, but...
Why don't you use it as a USB device instead?
Also, I'm not completely sure that the disk has to be owned by
vboxusers. If you run virtualbox as yourself, and you're in the disks
group, I think that is sufficient.
I tried that!
It did not work.
As you can see, I am also in the disks group:
$ id jd
uid=1008(jd) gid=1008(jd)
groups=0(root),6(disk),12(mail),11(cdrom),19(floppy),1009(vboxusers),1008(jd)
> But somehow magically, it reverts back to being
> owned by the group disks.
Do you mean when you unplug and re-plug the flash drive? This is due
to udev so nothing really to do with selinux.
No!
It just magically reverts back to having gid of 6 (disks).
> I have disabled selinux. So I have no idea what/who
> is changing it back. This is the reason why I am asking
> this list. The virtualbox list does not seem to have
> an answer.
Easy way: access it as a usb device
Harder way: add yourself to disk(s?) group and use it as a raw disk vmdk.
Hardest way: modify the udev rules to make vboxusers the owner.
Richard
I tried. When I click on the + icon on the right,
it says no devices available.