Cant share Virtual Machine between users

[Hammerman]

On my macbook pro I have two users accounts, the virtual disks are in a shared location, but the other user cannot open the virtual machine.

error = Unable to lock out the configuration file /library/virtual Disks/winxp.1/winxp.1.pvs

Any help greatly appreciated!!

 

[djones]

I was able to get it to work by changing permissions on the directory and included Parallels files for the virtual machine on "Other" to "Read & Write".

That doesn't feel very secure, so I'd appreciate an alternate solution.

 

[n9yty]

I was able to get it to work by changing permissions on the directory and included Parallels files for the virtual machine on "Other" to "Read & Write".

That doesn't feel very secure, so I'd appreciate an alternate solution.

You could change the group ownership of the directory/files to a newly created group, put both your users in there, and then make it all group read/writeable, that way you wouldn't have to use world read/write perms.