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dimaver83
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VMWare Player and read-only directory

Hello all.

I have the following environment:

1. Ubuntu 11.10 host

2. VMWare Player 4.0.2.

3. Guest OS is Windows 7x64

Windows image is placed inside a folder where only administrator has write permissions.


Question:

How, if at all, can a user with read-only permission open the image in VMWare Player?

As far as I understand, when the image is opened in VMWare Player, some data are always written to the image files. So a user with read-only permissions can't open the image in a straight-forward way.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Dima.

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