Administrative Lockout - Workstation 9

[fraserd77]

Is there an administrative lockout in Workstation 9. Basically we want to install Workstation 9 on a couple of users machines so they can have numerous machines that they can install software on and do regression testing but we don't want the users to be able to create new VM's or edit existing ones. I know the administrative lockout was a feature in previous versions of workstation.

[Bernd_Nowak]

You should check the shared Shared VMs documentation. It's still there. You can assign roles and permissions as well as use AD for this purpose.

[fraserd77]

Thanks very much I will have a look at the documentation.

[WoodyZ]

Even if you can stop someone from creating/modifying a VM from the VMware Workstation GUI that is not necessarily going to stop a user.  If not encrypted, one can simply copy and modify an existing VM's .vmx configuration file or create one in Notepad and doesn't even need to have a virtual hard disk if booting the VM from a Live OS ISO Image.  Or they can create the virtual hard disk using vmware-vdiskmanager from the command line, download what they want from Internet or bring it in on a flash drive!