[SOLVED] Virtual Box Runtime error opening

[RoyD]

Hi All
I installed Vbox and Extensions - installed good. I have another existing hard drive with all my virtual machines on ( Virtual Machines). I start Virtual Box and I get this error (snapshot2).

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If I close this vbox and use dolphin I get this error

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. If I add my admin password I can see the drive. Then If I start vbox I have access with no errors.
How do I make the drive accessible straight from Vbox. Any help would be appreciated
Thanks Roy

[CaptSilver]

What type of file system is it? NTFS?

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2011.0_Erra ... en_by_user

If not, you can always setup fstab to mount it with users option.

[RoyD]

It is using ext3. Its not just windows xp but many Linux systems on this drive.

[RoyD]

How do you setup fstab to mount it with users option?

[CaptSilver]

You can do this:
Setup the drive in fstab for automounting.

vim /etc/fstab:
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 ext3 defaults 1 1

This will depend on the location of your file system. If it is external and therefore its /dev/sdx changes, then you will have to setup the mount by its UUID.

OR, you can use MCC ->Local Disks -> Manage Disk Partitions -> Setup Mount points

User option is not available for EXT file systems...

[CaptSilver]

A quick extension to this, if you have problems with access permissions on the drive, you can use bind to remount the file system with different ownership.

bindfs -u $user -g $group /mnt/sdb1 /home/$user/sdb1

[RoyD]

I tried your suggestions and it was not going forward but it got me thinking so I gave the drive a mount point /vmm. I then recreated the vdi and away we went. Thank you once again.