Just helping set up someone with Parallels... They've purchased it based on my recommendation, so I had to help get it set up. LoL Anyway, they have three accounts on the laptop and would like to be able to launch their VM from inside any of the three. No problem, I just put the VM config and hard drive files in the Shared user folder with appropriate permissions. As long as they shut down the VM each time they use it, this works flawlessly. However, if they suspend it from one user account, the other accounts do not know it is suspended and will boot it instead. Is there a way to have the suspend information stored in the same location as the config and virtual drive image so it would be recognized regardless of the logged in user? Thanks! Steve
Oh, my bad, it looks like it *is* stored there, but it's created with read-only (for group/others) permissions, so perhaps that is why other user accounts can't open it to resume suspend... Or maybe they just don't have a flag set in their user preference file telling them the VM was suspended... ? Anyway, it would be nice if they were logged in as user A to be able to suspend, quit parallels, switch to user B, launch parallels and resume the VM where they left off.
Can somebody offer some more specific instructions for getting multiple users to see a Parallels WInXP volume? i've moved the Parallels folder containing the .hdd and .pvs files to the Shared directory, but it appears that each user has their own prefs, so when I switch users, and try to log in to Windows, I get a message that I have to select a VM Path. When I try to link to the image, the folder is locked. What should the permissions of the Parallels folder be in Shared, in order for all users to be able to access the image?
