right guys, as most of you know, running kubuntu and vmware, added new HDD, moved most VM's to new HDD but i have to run vmware as / to view all VM's, how do i configure the permissions of new HDD ? [ot]VMware doesn't like it when i run more that 4 OS's at once, even with 768Mb RAM[/ot]
vmware, accessing new HDD Can you browse the new hard drive in Konqueror? Check the file permissions in Konqueror first.
vmware, accessing new HDD konqueror can view it (both hdb2 & hdb5, VM,s on hdb2) but cant modify contents, that why i've been running VMware as root not sure how to setup permissions just what exactly do "Group" & "Others" refer to ? [ot]check this, hope it'll cheer you up a bit[/ot]
vmware, accessing new HDD Shouldn't you be the owner of those VM machines rather then root? If so, type: Code: sudo chown -R <your_username>:<your_usergroup> <folder_or_file> For example, I would type: Code: sudo chown -R megamaced:users /vmware/windows98vm
vmware, accessing new HDD wouldn't that just change the ownership of a single VMware VM ? how do i change the ownership of hdb2 (partition, or mount point /mnt/hdb2) if i changed the ownership of /mnt/hdb2, then all sub directories & files would then be owned by the user
vmware, accessing new HDD sudo chown -R <your_username>:<your_usergroup> /mnt/hdb2 The -R switch specifies all sub-directories
vmware, accessing new HDD found group :doh: i'm not called donkey for nothing (although to begin with, i just thought it was funny)
vmware, accessing new HDD after sudo chown -R dave:dave /mnt/hdb2 VMware run as root and VMware run as user (note the difference between VMware images, a lot more VM's if VMware run as root) and when i try to add a VM, i get this error obviously i don't know what i'm doing what next ?[ot]i now know what "group" is, but what is "other", anyway i'll keep looking, to see if i can sort it[/ot]
You said that your virtual machines are stored on hdb2 but that error message says 'Unable to open virtual machine on /mnt/hdb5. Have you configured the correct permissions on /mnt/hdb5? The Linux permissions structure is as follows: Owner: The user who created the file Group: Other users in the same group as the owner. Other: Any other user These groups do not apply to the root account. The root account has access to everything regardless of permisssions
yeah, VM's are on hdb5, so i need to setup the permissons of hdb5 Edit:i don't know how or why i thought they were on hdb2, i'll just blame it on MS (everything else is their fault) [ot]i'm like British Rail from 10 years ago "i'm getting there", but its bugging me how slow the journey is[/ot]
So what is on /mnt/hdb2 then? You should make sure that the permissions you set in error for that hdb2 are OK
