[purplemaji]

Hello. I've installed VMWare and Windows XP for a few games and such I wanted available. It works great for me, however when my wife logs in, she is unable to use the virtual disk I've set up. I tried copying the Virtual Machines folder to a shared directory adn updating the files so that we both have read/write permissions on them, but when she attempts to run the virtual machine, it says she doesn't have permission to.

Is there a way that I can set up things so that she can use the same image? I really don't want to have to do another reinstall of windows (once was bad enough) and I certainly don't want to worry about installing all the applications on both machines, etc.

If anyone has experience with this, please let me know.

Thanks!

[64stang06]

Once you move your VMWare file to the shared folder, do a Get Info on the image. Under permissions, make sure you set read and write access to everyone. Log into her account and then try again. It works great for me under Leopard, so hopefully you can get the same success.

[purplemaji]

Alright, so here was the deal. I had already set the permissions for all users to read/write, and that was what was shown on the virtual disk image file.

However, based on your positive feedback, I knew it must be possible, so I took another go at it.

It turns out that when you apply permissions to a directory, it updates the permissions of the files, but not necessarily the package contents, if it is a package. The disk image was a package, so I did a "view package contents" and then selected all and updated the permission to read/write for the individual files.

Now it all works fine.

Thanks!