Help with virtual box on Ubuntu

[Rylyguy]

I'm trying to make a vm in virtual box with an openmediavault iso. The host os is Ubuntu 20.04. I've had tons of issues but almost gotten it to boot. But when I try to add my iso as a CD drive it says "failed to save to the settings of the  virtual machine openmediavailt to /<path to drive>/openmediavault/openmediavault.vbox" all the issues I've had seem to have something to do with permissions. Could the harddrive be set to only allow write access to root users? Or what else could be the issue?

[NelizMastr]

If you're not installing to your home folder then yes, it's a permission issue. Linux is designed to only allow you to write to your own home folder by default.

If you want full access to other folders, you need to use chmod to change the appropriate permissions.

[Rylyguy]

Just now, NelizMastr said:

If you're not installing to your home folder then yes, it's a permission issue. Linux is designed to only allow you to write to your own home folder by default.

If you want full access to other folders, you need to use chmod to change the appropriate permissions.

I just tried running the command "sudo chmod ugo+wx /<path to drive>/" though I'm still receiving the same error. Did I use the wrong command?

 

[Rylyguy]

Nvm. I used chmod -R -v 777 * and it's all working now. Thanks for the help.