Add Account to the vboxusers User Group

[eduardolp3]

I installed Arch on Virtualbox and now I’m trying to add the account to the virtualbox group but fail. On the Arch wiki the command:

sudo gpasswd -a eduardolp3 vboxusers 

gives me:

gpasswd: group 'vboxusers' does not exist in /etc/group

I installed the guest additions to be able to talk to Manjaro and try Arch. Where am I wrong?

[mithrial]

@eduardolp3

I installed Arch on Virtualbox and now I’m trying to add the account to the virtualbox group but fail. On the Arch wiki the command:

This is a support forum for Manjaro. What exactly is your host system and how did you install VirtualBox?

[eduardolp3]

My host system is Manjaro and Virtualbox is installed with pacman.

[jrichard326]

I recently installed on a Manjaro host and didn’t use my username in the command and it worked. So ,just in case try:

sudo gpasswd -a $USER vboxusers

Log off to make change registered

See also:

Trying to use gpasswd add my user to vboxusers fails

Trying to add to sudo gpasswd a $USER vboxusers results in no vboxusers? Trying to run a Virtualbox instance and access a USB device connected to the host PC. I tried to run the above command (changing the $user to me) and the response was : gpasswd: user ‘vboxusers’ does not exist Version 6.1 of Virtualbox, with Extensions installed. EDIT: Seems it was the wrong syntax, should have been sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers <your_username> It’s now working. Thanks

[eduardolp3]

Thanks jrichard326.