﻿id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	guest	host
285	no floppy on Debian 4.0 hosts (W2K as guest OS) - or for root only?	oz42		"First, /dev/fd0 was not found by Virtualbox so I had to start ""modprobe floppy"" as superuser. This means that VB does not provide all features without root password.

Anyway, it did not help. After the modprobe /dev/fd0 was available, but not usable:

Cannot open host device '/dev/fd0' for read/write access. Check the permissions of that device ('/bin/ls -l /dev/fd0'): Most probably you need to be member of the device group. Make sure that you logout/login after changing the group settings of the current user.
VBox status code: -38 (VERR_ACCESS_DENIED).


But everything is ok here:

$ id
uid=1000(olaf) gid=100(users) groups=6(disk),24(cdrom),25(floppy),100(users),114(vboxusers)

$ l /dev/fd0
brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 Apr 20 08:57 /dev/fd0

Yes, I logged out and in after having me put into the floppy group."	defect	closed	other	VirtualBox 1.3.8	invalid			other	other
