On Monday 10 December 2007 11:21:49 am peter wrote: > Vaibhav Kaushal schrieb: > > Well, did you install the VMware as root? Or did you do 'su' from other > > user? > > Switched to superuser by using 'sux -' > Reconfigured VMWare and setup the virtual machine. > I gave also access to vm files to my common user, but still no luck. > > I can run this vm only by using su >> pass >> ./vmware > When I'm going as user to vmware / edit virtual machine settings/ > hardware / scsi hard disk I get: > > "Unable to retrieve disk information: Insufficient permission to access > file" > > Setting up a VM with direct disk access as user fails too. When I try to > setup such a vm as user then I get almost the same message in the hard > disk dialog: > > "Failed to load partitions for device /dev/sda: Insufficient permission > to access file" > > Thus how to obtain the proper rights for a user? > Putting the 'user' into the disk group doesn't work. > > -- > All the best, > Peter J. N. > aedon DESIGNS, http://www.aedon.eu/
What's the output of ll of the dir with the vmdk / config files? Sounds like the permissions of the config files may be broken. Ben -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
