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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] Not enough rights for VMWare on SuSE 10.3
From:       Catimimi <catimimi () libertysurf ! fr>
Date:       2007-12-11 13:30:58
Message-ID: 475E9112.7030205 () libertysurf ! fr
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Masim "Vavai" Sugianto a écrit :
> On 12/11/07, peter <nospam@aedon.eu> wrote:
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>> 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 Windows within
>> VMWare 6.0 from my physical drive? A common user has not enough rights
>> to acquire the needed info even on the partition table.
>>
>> - --
>> All the best,
>>                 Peter J. N.
>>     
>
> I got same experience about this 1 month ago, after 10.3 installation.
> After trying some tips and tricks, there is 2 option to solved this
> problem:
>
> 1. chmod 777 to the VMware images (folder and it's content)
> 2. Change the author or make the group author to get full access to
> the VMware images
>
> Try to logout and re-login to make sure the VMWare setting has been
> changed and get the latest update. I don't now why but the trick
> worked for me :-).
>
>   
Hello,

The VMware user has to be in the group "disk" and if not set like that,
you have to run as root:

# chmod 660 /dev/sd*

and all your partitions will be accessed by VMware.

Michel.



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