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donmontalvo
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Permissions and/or ACL for "/Users/Shared/Virtual Machines" folder?

Can someone who is deploying virtual machines using VMware's wrapper shout back with the output of:

ls -le /Users/Shared/

I haven't been able to find any info on how to set the "/Users/Shared/Virtual Machines/" folder, pretty sure ACL will be needed.

Thanks,
Don

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donmontalvo
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I may have caused some confusion, this isn't a deployment question, or a question about the virtual machines.

The post is about the /Users/Shared/Virtual Machines folder permissions.

In short, no ACL is needed, we were unsure, but reached out to VMware Support.

Thanks,

Don

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ColoradoMarmot
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Fusion needs to be installed and run from an administrator account, which should automatically take care of the permissions.  No need to set them manually.

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JessieZhang
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donmontalvo,

If you used VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/Deploy VMware Fusion.mpkg to deploy Fusion and any VM, the deployment will create /Users/Shared/Virtual Machines folder with below permission:

     ls -le /Users/Shared/

     drwxr-xr-x  root wheel  Virtual Machines

And the VM deployed into the "/Users/Shared/Virtual Machines" folder has below permission:

    ls -le /Users/Shared/Virtual Machines/

    drwxrwxrwx root wheel  <deployed VM bundle>

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donmontalvo
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I may have caused some confusion, this isn't a deployment question, or a question about the virtual machines.

The post is about the /Users/Shared/Virtual Machines folder permissions.

In short, no ACL is needed, we were unsure, but reached out to VMware Support.

Thanks,

Don

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