[TriLUG] Re: vmware switch user - linux host

[Israel J Pattison]

When you check and uncheck the make private box you are changing the
contents of two files:  /etc/vmware/vm-list and
/etc/vmware/vm-list-private.  I believe the
/etc/vmware/vm-list-private specifies the userids that are allowed to
access the vm.  Hacking that file might have fixed the problem (or it
may have rendered the vm completely unusable).

Israel

On 1/29/07, David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Old thread... but the solution was simple:  Uncheck the box which
> makes the VM private, then move it, chown it, whatever, then turn it
> on, presto... only then mark it private again if that's an extra bit
> of security you desire.  :)
>
>
> On 11/20/06, David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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