[plug] virtualbox

[Gavin Chester]

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 16:20 +0900, mccabedj wrote:
> Gavin Chester wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 21:41 +0900, Dion wrote:
> >> Just a thought.
> >>
> >> The other users profile for virtualbox, may need to be pointed to the 
> >> virtual hard drive file.
> >> Is your virtual hard drive file in your $home?  If so, it may not be 
> >> accessible to others.
> > 
> > Thanks, Dion. Ahh, yes that's where it is. Doh! I just charged ahead
> > some time back and did what I thought was a 'default' install of
> > virtualbox, so that's why it's not accessible to them. Didn't give it
> > enough thought, clearly :-( 
> 
> No problem. You can still do something like
> 
> sudo chgrp vboxusers windowshdd.vdi
> chmod g+rwx windowshdd.vdi
> sudo ln windowshdd.vdi /home
> 
> Then you can just get each user to import /home/windowshdd.vdi into 
> VirtualBox.

Terrific! Thanks for picking up the thread late - I hadn't got around to
changing anything yet so your fix will probably save the day :-)

Gavin