[Nix-dev] Virtualbox on Nixos15.09, Error: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)

[rohit yadav]

Changing the permission of of '/nix' by 'chmod g-w' solves the​ issue. Is
it a right solution?

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 5:17 PM, rohit yadav <rohityadav7787 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> After loading the vboxdrv manually, it moves forward but complains as
> follows:
> "An uknown group has write access to '/nix' and we therefore cannot trust
> the directory content or that of any subdirectory
> (VERR_SUPLIB_WRITE_NON_SYS_GROUP)"
>
> Do I need to manually change the group of /nix directory to root?
>
> --
> Rohit
>
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 4:53 PM, rohit yadav <rohityadav7787 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to run vagrant on NixOS with Virtualbox. I receive the above
>> mentioned error when launching any machine with Virtualbox. On ubuntu it is
>> fixed by dkms and vboxdrv module.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rohit
>>
>
>
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