Access Denied when starting Windows XP

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RalphT

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p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } In an attempt to solve an earlier issue where Parallels was giving me a "Insecure Startup Item disabled" window, I uninstalled and reinstalled Parallels v5. It now starts fine with no startup issues. I imported my Windows XP virtual machine and, when I tried starting it, I received the following message:



Access denied.
You do not have enough rights to use this virtual machine.


Please, how is this corrected?
 
I have discovered what the problem is and thought I would share it in case others have a similar problem.

Simply move the .pvm file from your "/Users/Name/Documents/Parallels" folder to "/Users/Shared/Parallels".

That's it!
 
Check the permissions and contents of the virtual machines:
Code: 
cd /Users/Shared/Parallels
ls -ld *.pvm; ls -lRA *.pvm

You'll need to change the permission of the files that you don't have write access to.
 
The permissions were all correct. I also made myself the owner of the file to no avail.
What finally corrected the problem was moving the vm to the desktop and then back to the users/shared/Parallels folder.
 
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