Running Parallels 7 in a Parental Controlled account..

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I am trying to setup a new Mac Air running Lion with Win7 Pro running on parallels 7.0.15054 on a 'Parental Control (PC)' account. The Win7 image works great while on an unrestricted admin account, but when I try and run it through a PC account I run into several popups I'm not sure how to get rid of. The first and biggest is 'Parallels Desktop wants to make changes. Type an administrator's name and password to allow this.' Now, of course, we don't want to give out that kind of info to end users! I've already given them permission under the PC setting to run parallels, what can I do to keep from having this box show up? I will post up more errors I run into as I work through them..
 
You will likely have to change permissions to the .pvm file and/or put it on /Users/Shared.
 
I have given read & write to the entire .pvm for this account. I've actually figured out what was causing it, under the Parallels Desktop Preferences>Advanced 'Require password to: Add an existing virtual machine' was causing the popup. Now that I'm past that I am running into errors saying 'Unable to Connect to Hard Disk 1.' I've looked, and the hdd file is in the .pvm with read/write access enabled for the PA account..
 
Got through the first two hoops...

Now how do I get all these permission windows to stop coming up while in the windows session? I need the virtual environment to run generally unrestricted. Ive already set isolation from MAC OS (for security reasons) and basically locked out everything on OSX except for Parallels and Safari. I've tried opening programs in the Win7 environment and basically everything I try to do is blocked, and in some cases even if i've set 'Always Allow' it still doesn't allow me to run. Any help is appreciated, thanks!
 
Thank you! Unfortunately, the parental controls extends its restrictions into the Win7 VM, and it causes a credential box to show up on EVERYTHING I try to do in the VM. I think just leaving the account standard will meet our needs.
 
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