[TriLUG] vmware switch user - linux host

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

I think so. I had the same symptoms ...where I'd delete / un-register,
and that file not disappear. After deleting it (it gets re-created when
you re-attach / start a new session) ...it came back up fine. Just make
sure you don't delete the wrong file :). Vmware is very unforgiving. 

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of David McDowell
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 2:26 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] vmware switch user - linux host

No, I wasn't aware any files in the VM folder were able to be deleted
(meaning, not knowing whether or not something bad woud happen if I
did).

Are these 2 lines in that file the ones that got in my way??
uuid.location = "blah blah blah"
uuid.bios = "same blah blah blah"

So my process was basically OK except not knowing I could delete this
file before re-attaching?  The file is then recreated?  If so, why'd it
work the first time when I opened the VSC as user2 when user1 had not
yet been deleted, only to then fail after user1 was deleted and I tried
to connect to them again?

thanks,
David



On 11/20/06, OlsonE at aosa.army.mil <OlsonE at aosa.army.mil> wrote:
> Did you make sure you deleted your *.vmx file before re-registering / 
> attaching to an existing console?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On 
> Behalf Of David McDowell
> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 1:26 PM
> To: TriLUG
> Subject: [TriLUG] vmware switch user - linux host
>
> Hi folks.  I seem to have run into a problem this weekend switching 
> which user owned my VMs.  User1 was the previous owner.  I shut the 
> VMs down, then I used the Vmware Server Console (VSC) to unregister 
> them (so I thought).  I created user2, then chown'd the VMs to user2, 
> went into the VSC as user2 and was able to open and start the VMs.
>
> However, then I went and deleted user1, closed the VSC and reopend and

> was no longer allowed to access those VMs.  I wonder if this has only 
> some, none or all to do with the making the VM private option... if 
> so, how to adjust for that so I can switch owners AND keep the VMs 
> private under the new owner?
>
> thanks,
> David McD
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