Virtualbox: How To Add Member To "vboxusers" Group

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I’ve played around with Virtualbox many times in the past, most of the time without issue. Not now though. I’m trying to use Virtualbox so I can install Windows 10 (My wife’s car requires Windows to update her Garmin map… grrrrr!). So, after installing Virtualbox and the guest-tools, I attempted to start it.

Not happening. An error box came up immediately that stumped my meager skills. “You are not a member of the “vboxusers” group. Please add yourself to this group before starting Virtualbox. Do it using Yast/Security and Users/User and Group management. Don’t forget to re-login with user account!”

I opened Yast as instructed and stalled.
I’m not sure how to “re-login with user account.”
I don’t see a vboxusers group in my group listing. How do I add myself as a member?

Can someone help me with this? I’m not sure how to find the documentation to teach me how to go any farther. I’ve tried and can’t find anything that I thought applied.

I appreciate any assistance anyone could offer.

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Hi
Your in the correct place with YaST, but the Users tab, select your Login name and then edit, click on details tab and in the ‘Additional Groups’ should see the vboxusers group in the list. Check that and press ok and exit YaST. Logout/login and should be good to go.

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Thanks!!

I finally found the magic key. Under my user listing, I hit edit. The second tab is called “details.” There was the solution group list that contained “vboxusers.” I clicked that box and saved. After a reboot, I"m good to go now.

Thanks again!!

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I’d just like to point out that logging out and in again was not enough, a reboot was required.