On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:15 PM, JD <jd1...@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. > 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. > 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 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
