How do I get new User Accounts to use my XP Virtual machine?

I've recently bought a macbook pro with parallels and windows xp pro installed by the supplier. I've followed the advice for adding new users for Parallels 4.0 as on the website on http://kb.parallels.com/en/5733. It is step 6 that I'm confused about. Firstly do I need to do this step? I've moved the Windows XP.pvm file from the Admin folder to the shared folder. So do I need to go on to Step 6 which involves some keystrokes in Terminal? I did start to do the keystrokes but the machine warned me that the sudo command could cause problems, so I got scared and didn't go further, just incase my keystrokes were wrong. I've got confused by the phrase "instead vm_folder_name use correspond name of VM bundle. Folder name with spaces should be wrapped into quotes"

My VM file name is "Windows XP.pvm", please could someone tell me what keystrokes I need to do to make this VM accessible to all Users on my machine??

Please Help!!!!!!!

Many Thanks

Ian

 

It is absolutely necessary to set the proper permissions if you would need other Mac users to access the virtual machine.

On a step 6 of the article that you mention, to set the permissions for all Mac users you would need to type the following command:

sudo chmod -R og+rwx /Users/Shared/Parallels/Windows\ XP.pvm

or, as it is suggested in the article:

sudo chmod -R og+rwx /Users/Shared/Parallels/"Windows XP.pvm"

Both ways would work if You placed the VM file in /Users/Shared/Parallels/ folder. If you just placed the VM file to Shared folder, then the command would be:

sudo chmod -R og+rwx /Users/Shared/Windows\ XP.pvm
or
sudo chmod -R og+rwx /Users/Shared/"Windows XP.pvm"

Hope this helps.