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An easy way to allow these users to access the virtual machine is to grant Read and
Write permissions to all the files in the virtual machine’s directory except for the
configuration file. Grant Read & Execute permission to the configuration file and
disallow the inheritance of permissions on the file.
Changing the User Account
You can change the user account for a virtual machine by choosing VM > Settings >
Options > Startup/Shutdown and changing the user account information there.
If the virtual machine is configured to run as the user account who powers it on, you
need to make sure the virtual machine is in a location that is accessible to that user. If
you need to locate the virtual machines in a different area, or on another system on
the network, make sure the user has access to the virtual machine resources (such as
virtual disks, physical disks, devices and snapshot files).
To change the location where virtual machines are created, see Specifying Where
Virtual Machines Are Created on page 160 .
Permissions and Virtual Machine Devices
If you intend to configure a virtual machine to use a physical disk or generic SCSI
device, the user account that the virtual machine runs as must be a member of the
Administrators group.
Configuring Permissions to Access a Virtual Machine
The system administrator (that is, the administrator responsible for setting up the host
running GSX Server, not necessarily the Windows Administrator login) can set the
access permissions on the configuration file using the following procedure. In general,
you would want your GSX Server users to have
Read permission to virtual machine
configuration files; you can add any specific users that should have Read & Execute
and Write permissions.
1. Locate the configuration file on the host system. Right-click the configuration file
and select Properties . The Properties dialog box appears.
2. Click the Security tab.
Note: If the virtual machine is stored on a Windows XP client system, and is
configured to use Workgroup mode, the Security tab is hidden by default. To
show the tab, on the Windows XP system, choose
Start > Control Panel >
Folder Options , click Advanced and clear the Simple File Sharing check box.
3. In the Properties dialog box, select each user or group and select the appropriate
permission, typically Read .