Vboxusers group

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1

Hello;

I just installed NixOS yesterday and am still getting to know it. I installed Virtualbox and am trying to figure out how to create the vboxusers group and add my user to it the “NixOS way”.

2

configuration.nix:

virtualisation.virtualbox.host.enable = true;
users.users.yourusername.extraGroups = ["vboxusers"];

then re-login

3

Thank you! I had added that first line, but not the second. I appreciate the assistance.

4

Hy,
my personal VBox setup (NixOS relative newcomer) is:

users.extraUsers.MyUserName = {
 ...
  extraGroups = [
    ... "vboxusers" "vboxsf"
  ];
};

that simply create relevant groups and add my user to them.

The rest is

virtualisation.virtualbox.host.enable = true;
virtualisation.virtualbox.host.enableExtensionPack = true;

Only problem is that VirtualBox get rebuilt upon update, and it
take a bit of time but everything work well.

– Ingmar

5

Thanks for that. Great help here. Still getting NixOS figured out