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Prefrences Error at Startup posted: Sep 19, 2008 11:29 AM

Click to view stockcap's profile Lurker 3 posts since
Sep 19, 2008
I am running VMWare 2.0 Build 116369 on OSX Tiger Server 10.4.11 I am virtualizing Red Hat Enterprise 5 64bit
I am automatically launching the virtual machine from the VMWare command line tool
When VMWare starts up I get the following message:

VMWare Fusion needs to store user preferences and other information in the directory "~/Library/Preferences/VMWare Fusion".
Do you want to continue although VMWare Fusion was unable to create that directory?

I select that I do and to not show the error again.
But it still pops up after a restart and stops VMWare from launching automatically

I have read that launching VMWare from 3rd party apps such as Quicksilver will sometimes create this error
But I am launching it directly from the command line tool.

Has anybody else had a similar issue? Any help is greatly appreciated

Re: Prefrences Error at Startup

1. Sep 19, 2008 11:55 AM in response to: stockcap
Click to view WoodyZ's profile Guru vExpert 11,111 posts since
Apr 22, 2004
First of all it "VMware" not "VMWare" and VMware is the Company Name and it is easier to follow and understand if you use the Product Name as well like "VMware Fusion" or just "Fusion" in this case as there is no product named "VMWare 2.0".

Anyway how explicitly and specifically is the Virtual Machine being automatically launched using the line tool?

What are the Permissions on the "~/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion" folder and files within that folder as seen in Terminal by the ls -l command?

Re: Prefrences Error at Startup

3. Sep 19, 2008 1:37 PM in response to: stockcap
Click to view WoodyZ's profile Guru vExpert 11,111 posts since
Apr 22, 2004
Sounds like the process is being owned by root and cannot write to the preferences file (it's a file not a folder) and as such your going to have to change the permissions on at the least the preferences file if not the folder it's in or ensure that the process is owned by the User.

Re: Prefrences Error at Startup

5. Sep 19, 2008 2:53 PM in response to: stockcap
Click to view WoodyZ's profile Guru vExpert 11,111 posts since
Apr 22, 2004
Can you attach a copy of the bash script?

Re: Prefrences Error at Startup

6. Sep 19, 2008 4:22 PM in response to: stockcap
Click to view etung's profile Guru VMware Employees 11,330 posts since
Oct 15, 2006
I don't know if you've seen this, but are you doing something similar to HOWTO: Run a Virtual Machine at Boot?

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