[TriLUG] vmware switch user - linux host

[David McDowell]

heh, I think I'll mv the file... see what happens, then decide if
delete is proper.  :)  I won't get to try it until after hours though,
so maybe tonight.

thanks,
David


On 11/20/06, OlsonE at aosa.army.mil <OlsonE at aosa.army.mil> wrote:
> 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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