post (Ref)<\/a> <\/strong>is caused by having the wrong permissions, resulting in:<\/p>\nls -l \/dev\n\ncrw------- 1 root root 10, 57 Oct 2 05:58 vboxdrv\ncrw------- 1 root root 10, 56 Oct 2 05:58 vboxdrvu\ncrw------- 1 root root 10, 55 Oct 2 05:58 vboxnetctl\ndrwxr-x--- 4 root vboxusers 80 Oct 2 05:58 vboxusb\n<\/pre>\nThe fix is to create \/lib\/udev\/rules.d\/20-virtualbox2.rules and add:<\/p>\n
\nKERNEL==\"vboxdrv\", NAME=\"vboxdrv\", OWNER=\"root\", GROUP=\"vboxusers\", MODE=\"0660\"\nKERNEL==\"vboxdrvu\", NAME=\"vboxdrvu\", OWNER=\"root\", GROUP=\"vboxusers\", MODE=\"0660\"\nKERNEL==\"vboxnetctl\", NAME=\"vboxnetctl\", OWNER=\"root\",GROUP=\"vboxusers\", MODE=\"0660\"\n<\/pre>\nThen restart the system and the permissions are now:<\/p>\n
ls -l \/dev\n\ncrw-rw---- 1 root vboxusers 10, 57 Oct 5 06:00 vboxdrv\ncrw-rw---- 1 root vboxusers 10, 56 Oct 5 06:00 vboxdrvu\ncrw-rw---- 1 root vboxusers 10, 55 Oct 5 06:00 vboxnetctl\ndrwxr-x--- 4 root vboxusers 80 Oct 5 06:00 vboxusb\n<\/pre>\nI am not sure how correct this is by including vboxdrv, but it does prevent the errors in VB logs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I saw this in the logs of both VB 4.3.30 and 5+: Failed to open “\/dev\/vboxdrvu”, errno=13, rc=VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_ACCESSIBLE Which based on this post (Ref) is caused by having the wrong […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Virtual Box VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_ACCESSIBLE error.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[53,78,80],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-box","tag-error","tag-verr_vm_driver_not_accessible","tag-virtual-box"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":471,"url":"https:\/\/www.mgreene.org\/?p=471","url_meta":{"origin":211,"position":0},"title":"NUC7PJYH: Closing out Gentoo on the Intel NUC","author":"Mike","date":"February 20, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, the NUC is done and everything to working. 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