VirtualBox 3.2.4 (and earlier versions)

Had a problem with VirtualBox not launching. I fired up Console to view the console messages and found the following error message:

Cannot trust the directory “/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS”.

Turned out to be a permissions issue with the root user owning a directory. I fired up Terminal.app, ran the following commands, and all was good:

sudo chmod 755 /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS
sudo chmod 755 /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/components

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