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

[Arseniy Seroka]

Did you set `virtualisation.virtualbox.host.enable = true;` in your 
configuration.nix?

-- 
Sincerely,
Arseniy Seroka



On 19 December 2015 02:53:23 rohit yadav <rohityadav7787 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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