Specifications

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VMware GSX Server Administration Guide
To change the location where virtual machines are created, see Specifying Where
Virtual Machines Are Created on page 154.
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.
If you want to limit access to the virtual machine, clear the Allow inheritable
permissions from parent to propagate to this object check box.
4. To specify that a user or group that should not have access to the configuration
file, either click Remove or check all permissions in the Deny column to deny all
permissions to that user or group.
5. To add more users or groups, click Add. The Select Users, Computers and Groups
dialog box appears. In the dialog box, select the groups or users that you want to
access the virtual machine, then click Add. After you finish adding the users or
groups, click OK. The users and groups are added with default Read and Write
permissions. In the Properties dialog box, change the type of access for the user
or group to the configuration file; choose either Read or Read & Execute and
Write. Click OK to set the permissions to the configuration file.