Re: [opensuse] Not enough rights for VMWare on SuSE 10.3

2007-12-11 Thread kanenas
On Monday 10 December 2007 04:02:34 pm Masim Vavai Sugianto wrote: On 12/11/07, peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, I got an existing WindowsXP (physical drive access) running on SUSE 10.3 ...but it works only as root. *mad* So

Re: [opensuse] Not enough rights for VMWare on SuSE 10.3

2007-12-11 Thread Catimimi
Masim Vavai Sugianto a écrit : On 12/11/07, peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, I got an existing WindowsXP (physical drive access) running on SUSE 10.3 ...but it works only as root. *mad* So the question is with what rights and what

Re: [opensuse] Not enough rights for VMWare on SuSE 10.3

2007-12-11 Thread peter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: The access problem refers to access rights for the physical partition(s) that vmware requires in order to boot a particular vm. For example, if you are trying to take an existing installation of some os that boots up

Re: [opensuse] Not enough rights for VMWare on SuSE 10.3

2007-12-11 Thread peter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 peter wrote: When i manage to create a floppy image I will post the result here. I promise. Well as promised... I've made a Windows XP boot floppy. I just had to format it and then copy few files onto it. After that I've created a floppy image by

Re: [opensuse] Not enough rights for VMWare on SuSE 10.3

2007-12-11 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-12-11 at 17:13 +0100, peter wrote: image with a full access to the windows partition only or make a floppy image with just the windows xp bootloader ;) It can get pretty risky, as sometimes one opens up full access of a linucs

Re: [opensuse] Not enough rights for VMWare on SuSE 10.3

2007-12-11 Thread peter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. wrote: No big deal... if you don't understand what is in a partition, just silently reformat it. Well the dual boot windows can do it too. Thus not much more risk then usual. However, I can live with that. I have backups Well I

[opensuse] Not enough rights for VMWare on SuSE 10.3

2007-12-10 Thread peter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, I got an existing WindowsXP (physical drive access) running on SUSE 10.3 ...but it works only as root. *mad* So the question is with what rights and what access do I have to provide a new user let say virtual in order to be able to run

Re: [opensuse] Not enough rights for VMWare on SuSE 10.3

2007-12-10 Thread peter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: [opensuse] Not enough rights for VMWare on SuSE 10.3

2007-12-10 Thread Ben Kevan
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

Re: [opensuse] Not enough rights for VMWare on SuSE 10.3

2007-12-10 Thread Jonathan Ervine
On Tuesday 11 December 2007 02:39:59 peter wrote: Hi guys, I got an existing WindowsXP (physical drive access) running on SUSE 10.3 ...but it works only as root. *mad* So the question is with what rights and what access do I have to provide a new user let say virtual in order to be able to

Re: [opensuse] Not enough rights for VMWare on SuSE 10.3

2007-12-10 Thread Masim Vavai Sugianto
On 12/11/07, peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, I got an existing WindowsXP (physical drive access) running on SUSE 10.3 ...but it works only as root. *mad* So the question is with what rights and what access do I have to provide a new