Unable to add self to group vboxusers

Sun Apr 9 18:24:38 UTC 2017


On 04/09/2017 12:04 PM, Manish Jain wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I am trying to run VirtualBVox under my under my system, a FreeBSD (p1)
> 11 amd64 box with a radeon R5 230 (Caicos) card.
>
>
> I did the following and rebooted :
>
> a) installed virtualbox-ose via pkg
>
> b) inserted vboxnet_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf
>
> c) added self to users vboxusers with : 'pw groupmod vboxusers -m <X>'
>
> d) added the following line to /etc/devfs.rules :
>
> add path 'usb/*' mode 0660 group operator
>
> Upon reboot, trying to run VirtualBox gets me :
>
> libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
> libGL error: image driver extension not found
> libGL error: failed to load driver: radeon
> libGL error: failed to open drm device: Permission denied
> libGL error: failed to load driver: r600
> <html><b>Effective UID is not root (euid=1001 egid=1001 uid=1001
> gid=1001) (rc=-10)</b><br/><br/>Please try reinstalling
> VirtualBox.<br><br><!--EOM-->where: SUPR3HardenedMain
> what:  2
> VERR_PERMISSION_DENIED (-10) - Permission denied.
> </html>
> ^C
>
>
> When I run the groups command, I get different results based on
> effective UID :
>
>
> a) as root, when I run 'groups <X>', I spot  vboxusers among the groups
> for <X>
>
> b) as normal user, when I run groups I do not see vboxusers among my
> groups.
>
>
> I am therefore unable to run VirtualBox. What exactly could be the
> problem that leads me into vboxusers not being among my groups ?
>
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Manish Jain
>
I do not know how you tried to add users to a group, but here is the CLI 
command
$ sudo |usermod -a -G wheel <username1>
Unfortunately, the command only allows the addition of one user at a time :(


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