In this post, I will explain how to solve this problem by a few tricks.

You need to open the file mountkernfs.sh

# vi /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh


Inside this file, look for this line:

domount proc "" /proc proc -onodev,noexec,nosuid


Please insert directly below the line above this following statement. You need to replace xxx with the groupID of the vboxuser. You can find this ID in your /etc/groups file

domount usbfs usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs -onodev,noexec,nosuid,devgid=xxx,devmode=664


Furthermore, open your fstab file:

# vi /etc/fstab


and add this line as the very first statement. Replace xxx like above.

none /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto,busgid=122,busmode=0775,devgid=xxx,devmode=0664 0 0


That’s it. Have a lot of fun. Please don’t hestitate to add any comments to this post.

Change to user root:

# su


Mounting the ISO image to a directory or your choice, for example /mnt

# mount -o loop disk1.iso /mnt


Don’t forget to umount the ISO image after using:

# umount /mnt


More about loop device
A loop device is a virtual network device which makes a file accessible as a block device. Loop devices are typically used for CD ISO images. Mounting a file containing a whole filesystem by a loop mount makes the files within that filesystem accessible. The content of the ISO image appears in the mount point directory using above commands.


localhost:/# su
localhost:/# vmware-uninstall.pl


Or directly by the sudo command:

localhost:/# sudo vmware-uninstall.pl


Don’t forget to delete your images from disk if you want to. Typically the images will be stored in /var/lib


export PS1='\e[0;32m\u\e[0;32m@\h:\e[0;0m\w\e[0;0m$\e[0m '


Just put the lines above in your /etc/profile and in the ~/.bashrc

The color codecs are:

GRAY="\[\033[1;30m\]"
LIGHT_GRAY="\[\033[0;37m\]"
CYAN="\[\033[0;36m\]"
LIGHT_CYAN="\[\033[1;36m\]"
NO_COLOUR="\[\033[0m\]"
BLUE="\[\033[0;34m\]"
LIGHT_BLUE="\[\033[1;34m\]"
RED="\[\033[0;31m\]"
LIGHT_RED="\[\033[1;31m\]"
GREEN="\[\033[0;32m\]"
LIGHT_GREEN="\[\033[1;32m\]"
PURPLE="\[\033[0;35m\]"
LIGHT_PURPLE="\[\033[1;35m\]"
BROWN="\[\033[0;33m\]"
YELLOW="\[\033[1;33m\]"
BLACK="\[\033[0;30m\]"
WHITE="\[\033[1;37m\]"


The message will be shown prompltly after authentification:

To get these basic messages, just put it into /etc/motd (and in /etc/motd.tail for Debian and Ubuntu). For example the /etc/motd:

_______________________________________________________
WELCOME TO LOCALHOST

[localhost.org] FILE SERVER
To start or stop fileserver:
/etc/init.d/nfsd start/stop


Finding ascii art at:
http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/index2.shtml
http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/def/demon.txt