On Monday 10 December 2007 04:02:34 pm Masim "Vavai" Sugianto wrote:
> On 12/11/07, peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 :-).
The access problem refers to access rights for the physical partition(s) that
vmware requires in order to boot a particular vm. For example, if you are
trying to take an existing installation of some os that boots up as a grub
option, then the physical partition and the grub holding partition must be
available to vmware. It can get pretty risky, as sometimes one opens up full
access of a linucs partition to...windoze!!!!! Playing with the disk group
and changing permissions of whole partitions requires a lot of thinking and a
lot of care. Make sure you keep track of what you change, because chances are
high that you will not want to really open up your system to windoze
fickleness.
Additionally, even if you bypass the access problems first by running vmware
as root, you will most probably have problems with non scsi devices being
called scsi, see a related thread about fake scsi drives and vmware in this
list.
good luck and please post your progress,
d.
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