I just upgraded to Desktop 4.0 about 2 weeks ago and everything was working fine. Then when my wife tried to use the window VM it would not grant her access so i went in and gave her rights to the desktop application and VM. Now it seems i don't have access. here is the message i am getting. Access Denied: You Don't have enough rights to use this virtual machine. I have checked all the access rights by clicking and getting info and my user profile has read and write access plus my user is a administrator on this computer. I just don't know where to go from here except log into my wifes profile and use the vm that way.
Try repairing permissions on Mac side -- run /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility, click Repair Disk Permissions
I tired fixing the permissions and it didn't work. I created another user account on the computer and it has access now my wifes account doesn't have access to the VM.
I tried to repair premissions and that didn't help. I created another account and the new account has access now my wifes account has been denied access to the VM.
tried your suggestion no luck Created a new account and new account has access but now my wifes account does not have access when she did before i created the account.
still access denied Hi there, I just tried out Johns workaround at <http://kb.parallels.com/en/5733> but I'm still in trouble. In my case, the virtual machine is shown as a "0 KB" file (and was shown in that way before the terminal job)! After double-clicking the VM-File, the alert box says: The specified bundle is invalid. The bundle does not contain a valid Parallels virtual machine." In the other user-space, the same file (at Users/Shared/Parallels) has more than 40 GB and runs correctly. All this happened after I pushed the VM-File to the shared folder. Whats that? TIA Jochen Hardware info: MBP 2.4, Mac OS 10.5.8, RAM 4 GB
I think what I had to do was wipe the VM and start all over and made sure I checked the share w/ everyone. I could never get it to work. I just gave up and started fresh.
Disk Util.app didn't solve the problem for me either. For anyone having this issue in the future, here's how I resolved it... Open terminal and change directory to your parallels VM folder. I believe the default is: ~/Parallels/Documents/Parallels chmod 755 [name of the vm that's giving you trouble] cd [name of the vm that's giving you trouble] chmod 755 * I'm sure it wasn't necessary to apply the chmod to all of the contents of the pvm folder, but I didn't feel like trying individual files.
