Cant create virtual harddisk in home folder

Can you give the output of:

df -h

Thanks

What's the error message ?
Can you give the output of:
  ll -d $HOME

Failed to create the hard disk storage Win XP.vdi.
Could not create the directory '/home/hashir/.VirtualBox/HardDisks' (VERR_ACCESS_DENIED).
Details:

Result Code:
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component:
VirtualBox
Interface:
IVirtualBox {2158464a-f706-414b-a8c4-fb589dfc6b62}

Output for ll -d $HOME

hashir@hashir-laptop:~$ ll -d $HOME
drwxr-xr-x 49 hashir hashir 4096 2010-08-06 14:57 /home/hashir/

Output for ll -d $HOME

hashir@hashir-laptop:~$ ll -d $HOME
drwxr-xr-x 49 hashir hashir 4096 2010-08-06 14:57 /home/hashir/

Hashir,
You have failed to give the output of the command I gave
Please do so

Thanks
-Andy

Can you give the output of:
  ll -d /home/hashir/.VirtualBox/
You should have something like "drwxr-xr-x". The four first letters are important.

hashir@hashir-laptop:~$ ll -d /home/hashir/.VirtualBox/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-08-05 14:11 /home/hashir/.VirtualBox//
hashir@hashir-laptop:~$

Please open a terminal and type or better copy from here and paste into terminal the row below then press enter:

sudo chown -R $USER.$USER $HOME

the system will ask you a password: give your user password, you will not see nothing when you type it, then press enter

The outpu is like this

hashir@hashir-laptop:~$ sudo chown -R $USER.$USER $HOME
chown: cannot access `/home/hashir/.gvfs': Permission denied
hashir@hashir-laptop:~$
hashir@hashir-laptop:~$

Thats normal.

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-08-05 14:11 /home/hashir/.VirtualBox/

The file is owned by root, this is usually caused by you running nautilus with sudo instead of gksudo.

You still haven't give the output of:

df -h

Thanks.

So now please try... please close this question marking as solved

Thank you

Thanks delance, that solved my question.

HASIR, do you by any chance run commands lik:

sudo nautilus
and/or
sudo gedit

?