Specifications

CHAPTER 2 Creating a New Virtual Machine

network access from within the virtual machine and access to virtual machine

resources that are on the network.

• User that powers on the virtual machine — the virtual machine runs as the

account of the user who powered on the virtual machine until the virtual

machine is powered off. Other users can connect to the virtual machine but it

still runs as the user who powered on the virtual machine.

The level of access other users have to this virtual machine is based on the

level of access of the user that powers it on. For information about user access

to virtual machines, see Understanding Permissions and Virtual Machines in

the VMware GSX Server Administration Guide.

• Local system account — the virtual machine runs as the local system account

(administrator). You can enable this option only if you are logged on to the

host operating system as an administrator.

Note: This user can run virtual machines that are in local storage only.

• This user — the virtual machine runs as the user account specified here. The

password is not validated until you power on the virtual machine. You can

specify a local user account, a local system administrator account or a fully-

qualified domain user account for this user.

All hosts: Under Startup/Shutdown Options, choose whether you want this

virtual machine to power on automatically when the GSX Server host starts up

and whether you want the virtual machine to power off when the host shuts

down. You can configure a virtual machine to start up or shut down

automatically when the host starts or shuts down only when the host is

configured accordingly. If the host settings are disabled, you must enable them

before you can specify these options for a virtual machine. For more information,

see Configuring Startup and Shutdown Options for Virtual Machines in the

VMware GSX Server Administration Guide.

To enable the startup and shutdown options, you must configure the virtual

machine to run as an administrator user.

When the virtual machine is powered off, you can change all these options.