Insufficient permissions to access file vmware

Posted: Thu Apr 24, am Post subject:. My system has two sata hard drives. I had it dual booting - one hard drive linux sdb and one winxp sda before I set up vmware. I installed vmware on the linux disk sdb and run winxp from there but wanted access to the disk sda which I had been using with the dual boot winxp.

If I remove both the sda partitions scsi and from the virtual machine settings, the virtual machine will fire up. So the question is what changed that made those two partitions no longer usable mountable by the virtual machine? I could browse them in konqueror from linux so in linux they still worked fine.

Could be my fstab isn't quite right. A couple years ago I had been playing around trying to get permissions to work right for something and changed a few things - it always worked but maybe is no longer right for whatever I updated on an emerge -uD world - so it may profess my ignorance by showing the pertinent lines: Code:. Posted: Thu Apr 24, pm Post subject:. I may not understand what that person was telling you - how could you share data on a disk between the host and guest - be able to work on data on a disk from either linux or the virtualized windows.

Maybe it is too early and my mind hasn't completely woke up. I do have a network attached storage unit that is mounted both in the guest and the host and works - I'll have to think about why that is different. So I try and reboot the VM. The VM will not shut down so I have to power it off.

Insufficient permission to access file. It is not clear at the moment what causes this issue. There is a similar post on VMware forums, you can take a look at it here. Check our Corporate and Consumer Handbooks and Online Documentation for help on managing your account, products and support. Our mission is to create Customer success.

Enter your Mac password when prompted. Lock the permissions. Reopen the VMware application. Worthwelle 4, 11 11 gold badges 18 18 silver badges 31 31 bronze badges.

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