VBox failure

[Derek Broughton]

Marius Gedminas wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 05:44:56PM -0500, Willis Taylor wrote:
>> I have the Sun VirtualBox v.2.2.4 install and my WinXP runs perfectly
>> but I need to test openSuSE for some friends and after creating the VM
>> and setting the CD Drve and Floppy Ireceive the following message, with
>> the Suse disk installed in the CD.
>> 
>> quote...
>> Failed to start the virtual machine Suse.
>> 
>> Cannot open host device '/dev/sdb' for read/write access.
> 
> /dev/sdb is not a CD.  It's your second hard disk (or a USB disk, I
> can't tell from this distance).  Are you really sure you want to give
> VirtualBox read/write access to it?  I wouldn't.

That looks right - somehow you've enabled /dev/sdb as your CD (or more 
likely your floppy).

First, disable the floppy.  There's no need for it, and you can always add 
it later if you want.  If you actually have a USB floppy, you want to access 
it via the USB options, not the Floppy options, anyway.

Then, enable the CD simply by selecting "CD/DVD-ROM" and checking the "Mount 
CD/DVD Drive" and "Host CD/DVD Drive" boxes.
-- 
derek