Very Computer

The other users on your system will need rw permissions to the vm .dsk
file and probably the whole dir that the vm files are stored.

If I were you I would move your vmware dir to /usr/local/vmware and make
the dir rw by the same group as your users (family). Then each users will
need the license file in their home dir as yours is now (Don't remember
off hand as I am not at home and can't check).

You will may have to change the permissions on the various items in each
vmware's vm dir so the group (which every you chose has rw to that files).

So as an example if you have an nt4 vm under /usr/local/vmware/nt4/
And if all the users you want to have access to this vm have their group
set to 'users' then make both /usr/local/vmware & /usr/local/vmware/nt4
have rw access:

chgrp users /usr/local/vmware
chgrp users /usr/local/vmware/*
chgrp users /usr/local/vmware/nt4/*
chmod g+rw /usr/local/vmware
chmod g+rw /usr/local/vmware/*
chmod g+rw /usr/local/vmware/nt4/*

Like I said they will need to have a license file in their home dir and be
able to execute vmware. I am also assuming you mean running vmware by diff
users at different times.

So if a users has the required license file they should be able to
vmware /usr/local/vmware/nt4/nt4.cfg

and power on!

(Using nt4 ws as my example)

Cheers,

- Justin
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Cheers, Justin, your help is much appreciated. I will try setting that
up right now!

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Maybe. IANAL. :)

Quote:> I
>did try installing to /usr/local but got in quite a tangle with
>permissions and the fact that config files AND virtual disk expect to be
>located in the same directory.

>Has anyone achieved this?

I haven't tried to, but how about if you create a .vmware/ directory in
every users' home directory, a /usr/local/win95 directory containing the .cfg,
.nvram, .dsk and so on, then run 'vmware /usr/local/win95/win95.cfg' ?

Best Regards,
Alex.
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I'll avoid this side of the discussion.  Read the license and decide for
yourself.

Quote:> >Has anyone achieved this?

> I haven't tried to, but how about if you create a .vmware/ directory in
> every users' home directory, a /usr/local/win95 directory containing the .cfg,
> .nvram, .dsk and so on, then run 'vmware /usr/local/win95/win95.cfg' ?

This worked fine for me.  I did not do this exactly.  I copied .vmware
to /root and tried to use it as root.  It did not work before but it did
work after.  

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