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Sharing Virtual Machines with Other Users
Sharing Virtual Machines with Other Users
If you intend to have other users access your virtual machines, you should consider the following points:
On Windows hosts, the virtual machine files should be in a location on a system that is accessible to those users. When you create a virtual machine, by default all the files associated with it are placed in C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\My Documents\My Virtual Machines. Other users typically do not have access to this folder. When you configure the virtual machine in the New Virtual Machine Wizard, you can specify a location for the virtual machine elsewhere on your system or on the network.
On Linux hosts, permissions for the virtual machine filesespecially the configuration file (.vmx) and virtual disks (.vmdk)should be set for other users according to how you want them to use the virtual machine. For instance, if you want users to run a virtual machine but not be able to modify its configuration, do not make the configuration file writable.