VMWare Fusion: "No Permission to access this virtual machine"
- by Craig Walker
I had a VMWare Fusion VM backed up on my home network file server (Ubuntu). I wanted to run it again, so I copied it back to my Macbook.
When I tried to launch it in VMWare, I got an error message:
No permission to access this virtual machine.
Configuration file: /Users/craig/WinXP Clean + Scanner.vmwarevm/WinXP Pro Test.vmx
The permissions look fine to me:
The bundle directory is 777
The bundle files (including the listed .vmx) are all 666
User is craig (my current user); group is staff. I changed the group to wheel at the suggestion of this page, but that didn't help.
Finder shows read & write for craig, staff, and everyone on the bundle directory
The bundle dir is also not locked
Finder also shows rw and unlocked for the .vmx file
The parent directory is also rw & unlocked
Disk Utility permissions check doesn't show any problems with any of the associated files
It sure looks like I should have wide open access to run this VM; why is Fusion complaining?
