Comment 8 for bug 1935856

Confirmed!

Sergei, I needed to do sudo chmod u+s, *not* sudo chmod g+s. g+s didn't
work.

On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 4:45 PM Sergey Menshikov <email address hidden>
wrote:

> I confirm that setting suid on VirtualBoxVM mitigates the issue.
> sudo chmod g+s /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBoxVM
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