![]() In Finder, use "Go" to go to this folder: Here is a solution for those who, like me, would rather not spend another wasted day on getting IE testing up and running with Windows in Virtual Box. The core issue is that permissions have become messed up, and Virtual Box is picky about them. If there was no other option than reinstalling, is there anyway to backup the VMs? Digging into VirtualBox directory I haven't found anything sounding like a VM package/file containing each VM.įor me, the accepted answer was an unattractive workaround, since re-installing Virtual Box destroys authorization for the Windows Virtual Boxes that I spent a day downloading, installing and setting up for testing apps and websites on different versions of heinous IE. I haven't found any other good info about this that could solve the problem. Then, is there any way to fix this without reinstalling. I would like to avoid that suggestion, as I have many important VMs and I don't want to lose them. ![]() Sudo chmod 755 /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/componentsĪfter that, when trying to start the application I get a pop-up window saying:Įffective UID is not root (euid=501 egid=20 uid=501 gid=20) (rc=-20) ![]() So I found that in order to fix it, I should change the permissions as follows: sudo chmod 755 /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS I did some research and found similar problems, most of them indicating problems with permissions. MacOS": group and/or other writable (st_mode=040777)Ĭom.501 (.): Exited with code: 1 : VirtualBox: supR3HardenedVerifyDir: Cannot trust the directory "/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/ I looked in the system log (/var/log/system.log) and I found these two messages repeated every time I tried starting VirtualBox. Suddenly and without notice, VirtualBox application doesn't start.įirst, it just didn't do anything.
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