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VirtualBox : mouse integration and messagebox warningHi SUSE folks ! here are some changes in our VirtualBox package which will be present in 11.2 ls -la /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox I got many complains from users: "Why virtualbox just silently failed in this case?", so I decide to fix this issue and I add simple messagebox which warn you if you are not member of vboxusers group and if you try to start virtualbox:
-rwsr-x--- 1 root vboxusers 23096 2009-09-30 00:02 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox As we use wrapper script /usr/bin/VirtualBox which starts real vbox binary from /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox, I put check to this wrapper : /usr/bin/id -nG | grep -v -e "root" -e "vboxusers" >/dev/null && /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxPermissionMessage && exit So if user is not in vboxusers group or is not root, VBoxPermissionMessage is started. Because of VirtualBox GUI dependency on qt, I wrote this simple messagebox also in qt.
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