Access Denied when starting Windows XP

p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } In an attempt to solve an earlier issue where Parallels was giving me a "Insecure Startup Item disabled" window, I uninstalled and reinstalled Parallels v5. It now starts fine with no startup issues. I imported my Windows XP virtual machine and, when I tried starting it, I received the following message:



Access denied.
You do not have enough rights to use this virtual machine.


Please, how is this corrected?

 

I have discovered what the problem is and thought I would share it in case others have a similar problem.

Simply move the .pvm file from your "/Users/Name/Documents/Parallels" folder to "/Users/Shared/Parallels".

That's it!

 

That didn't work for me. My virtual machine has always been in users/shared/parallels

 

Check the permissions and contents of the virtual machines:

Code:

cd /Users/Shared/Parallels
ls -ld *.pvm; ls -lRA *.pvm

You'll need to change the permission of the files that you don't have write access to.

 

The permissions were all correct. I also made myself the owner of the file to no avail.
What finally corrected the problem was moving the vm to the desktop and then back to the users/shared/Parallels folder.