[OpenIndiana-discuss] /hipster: latest kernel updates cause crash when vbox guest is started

[Jim Klimov]

16 апреля 2016 г. 10:21:00 CEST, Alexander Pyhalov <alp at rsu.ru> пишет:
>Jim Klimov писал 15.04.2016 22:01:
>> 15 апреля 2016 г. 20:07:47 CEST, Nikola M <minikola at gmail.com> пишет:
>>> On 04/15/16 04:12 PM, Predrag Zečević - Unix Systems Administrator
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Trying it:
>>>> $ pfexec fmdump -Vp -u e701b777-689f-6be0-952a-9e382a0c23e5
>>>> 
>>>> No luck this time - nothing has been displayed....
>>>> 
>>>> $ ls -al /export/tmp/crash/vmdump.1
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 363M Apr 15 15:58 /export/tmp/crash/vmdump.1
>>>> 
>>>> So, I am writing this from reverted image :-(
>>> 
>>> User using VirtualBox needs to be member of 'vboxuser' group.
>>> 
>
>Hi,
>is it something new in VirtualBox 5? I run 4.3.30, user doesn't have
>any 
>special permissions.
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It was there from very long ago. Certain device nodes maintained by virtualbox are owned by the vboxusers group, so people wanting usb passthrough, maybe raw host partition delegation, etc. and some other usecases must be members of the group.

Not every usecase needs it - so maybe you never cared ;)

Jim
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