Unfortunately this is a machine in my office which I've now left for the weekend. When I ran "grep vboxusers /etc/group" after getting back to the command line, it told me the group existed with GID 119, but had no members. I worked out that the reason /dev/vboxdrv didn't exist is due to the module load failing (which was caused by the lack of group at the time).
I think the fix involved just running "sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv restart" when I was returned to the command line, and since the vboxusers group exists on this second run, the startup was successful. Then I manually added my account to the vboxusers group and I was able to run Virtualbox successfully as a non-root user. I will check my .bash_history on Monday when I'm back in the office to see if those instructions are correct. -- Cannot change owner vboxusers for device /dev/vboxdrv https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153819 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
