Every time I reboot the permissions for the Virtualbox executable go back to NOT being effective root UID. What I mean to say is…in order to run it as a normal user I have to chmod it every time i start up like
chmod 4711 Virtualbox
I don’t guess this is really a big deal…I was just wondering if anyone knew how to fix it?
doss
Are you created the usergroup vboxusers? Is your user in this group?
It’s described here: VirtualBox Installation - openSUSE.
Good luck.
umm. well. it wasnt added to the group, which i didnt check because I didnt think it would work at all.
Not sure if that fixed it or not…ill keep you posted.
thanks for the help
doss
LOL that fixed it! 
ok so…that wasn’t “THE” problem…
any other ideas?
doss
I have some problems with permitions too
but what file you change permitions?
/usr/bin/VirtualBox
or
/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox
mine permissions is looking
~> sudo ls -l /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox
-rwsr-x--- 1 root vboxusers 22274 Дек 10 15:48 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox
> sudo ls -l /usr/bin/VirtualBox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 89 Дек 10 15:48 /usr/bin/VirtualBox
Are you a member of the vboxusers group as suggested to me? What if any error messages are you getting?
It looks like its not group executable (if i remember how to read the permissions…which i wouldn’t bet on)
try this:
chmod 4711 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox
doss
Mine are:
$ ls -lL /usr/bin/VirtualBox /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2384 2008-11-22 09:06 /usr/bin/VirtualBox
-r-s–x–x 1 root root 23776 2008-11-22 09:07 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox
The shell script should not be setuid but the binary it calls in /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox should be setuid root.
I did not suggest you anything… I have no idea how this can be fixed…
but when i run
>sudo chmod 4711 /usr/lib/virtual/VirtualBox
as you suggest VirtualBox is starting fine 
for me
so i will try restart and look at permissians
i check one more
~> sudo ls -l /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox
-rws--x--x 1 root vboxusers 22274 Дек 10 15:48 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox
oops it very strange… permissions not changed but VirtualBox is start… very strange now i try to reboot
Also IIRC it was in version 2.0 that the binary became setuid. In version 1.x it was not setuid. If you are running 1.x, then it does not have to be setuid and you are chasing a red herring. If you have problems starting a VM without the setuid, then it’s because of other reasons, like not being in group vboxusers or not having permissions on the VM files.
I am reboot
and have VirtualBox runs just fine thank god
thank you ken_yap for clearing this
+1 in reputation
before survey i did not know about exist of such thing here…