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Old 09-18-2012, 08:17 AM
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Hi experts,
is that possible to run the virtualbox under normal user instead running from root?

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Old 09-18-2012, 10:39 AM
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Not at the moment. Even if you use the port as a "normal" user it is
still running as root, through setuid.
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hi expert,

That is the error output I run from normal user :

VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: dlopen("/usr/pbi/virtualbox-amd64/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so",) failed: Shared object "libQtCore.so.4" not found, required by "VirtualBox.so"
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What command are you running? The desktop / menu icon has you run this:

% pc-su /usr/pbi/virtualbox-amd64/.sbin/VirtualBox-wrapper
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