Re: VMWare Fusion/One virtual machine shared by all users

[Stuart Breden]

Thanks Neil

I'll see what we can find and if necessary report back.

Stuart Breden
PO Box 132
Kalamunda WA 6926
Ph: (08) 9257 1577
Mbl: 0417 053 266



On 16/05/2010, at 8:05 PM, Neil Houghton wrote:



Hi Stuart,

If it is like Parallels, the issue may well be the permissions set  
on the VM

file(s)

I know, for me, I had a VM created by one user and wanted it to be  
usable by
two users - I did some googling and found articles in the Parallels  
forums
which let me sort it out by changing permissions using Terminal - 
after which
it worked fine - but cloning the machine didn't inherit the  
privileges of

the original - so you had to do it again for the clone.

The permissions changes were different depending whether you wanted it
accessible to specific users (which I did) or open to any user  
(which would

include "Guest" if you have it enabled).

Obviously exact steps/files would be different with Fusion - but I  
suspect

the principle is the same.

I was working with existing VMs - if you are starting from scratch  
you MAY
be able to get around it by specifying a shared folder for Fusion to  
use for

the VMs (don't know, but worth a try).

Cheers




Neil
--
Neil R. Houghton
Albany, Western Australia
Tel: +61 8 9841 6063
Email: n...@possumology.com




on 16/5/10 7:28 PM, Stuart Breden at bred...@highway1.biz wrote:



Hi there

Having a bit of a problem with Windows XP with VMWare Fusion.

Having to install Fusion on all users logons on the Intel iMac.

Can I not have one installation and share it with all users?

Stuart Breden
PO Box 132
Kalamunda WA 6926
Ph: (08) 9257 1577
Mbl: 0417 053 266







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Re: VMWare Fusion/One virtual machine shared by all users

[Neil Houghton]

Hi Stuart,

If it is like Parallels, the issue may well be the permissions set on the VM
file(s)

I know, for me, I had a VM created by one user and wanted it to be usable by
two users - I did some googling and found articles in the Parallels forums
which let me sort it out by changing permissions using Terminal -after which
it worked fine - but cloning the machine didn't inherit the privileges of
the original - so you had to do it again for the clone.

The permissions changes were different depending whether you wanted it
accessible to specific users (which I did) or open to any user (which would
include "Guest" if you have it enabled).

Obviously exact steps/files would be different with Fusion - but I suspect
the principle is the same.

I was working with existing VMs - if you are starting from scratch you MAY
be able to get around it by specifying a shared folder for Fusion to use for
the VMs (don't know, but worth a try).

Cheers




Neil
-- 
Neil R. Houghton
Albany, Western Australia
Tel: +61 8 9841 6063
Email: n...@possumology.com




on 16/5/10 7:28 PM, Stuart Breden at bred...@highway1.biz wrote:

> 
> Hi there
> 
> Having a bit of a problem with Windows XP with VMWare Fusion.
> 
> Having to install Fusion on all users logons on the Intel iMac.
> 
> Can I not have one installation and share it with all users?
> 
> Stuart Breden
> PO Box 132
> Kalamunda WA 6926
> Ph: (08) 9257 1577
> Mbl: 0417 053 266
> 
> 




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