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