XP Guest for non-privileged OS X Users
Posted: 17. Feb 2009, 14:37
Hi,
i'll try to figure out how to use VirtualBox in a Mac OS X computer lab for our students to give them a XP Guest system. What i did up to now was:
mkdir /VirtualBox with rwxrwxr-w belonging to me, beeing part of the admin group, students have 'other' rights
setenv VBOX_USER_HOME /VirtualBox
installed VirtualBox, created a XP VM with two hard disk, installed guest additions, made the hard disk immutable after installations, everything runs fine from my account.
now, when i log into OS X as a student and try to launch VirtualBox, i get:
"Could not lock the settings file '/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml'"
Of course, this happens because as a student i have only r-x permissions in /VirtualBox. On the other hand, i don't want to give students any chance to change anything in the virtual box settings (and the guest system as well).
Is there no way to do this?
Regards, sepp
i'll try to figure out how to use VirtualBox in a Mac OS X computer lab for our students to give them a XP Guest system. What i did up to now was:
mkdir /VirtualBox with rwxrwxr-w belonging to me, beeing part of the admin group, students have 'other' rights
setenv VBOX_USER_HOME /VirtualBox
installed VirtualBox, created a XP VM with two hard disk, installed guest additions, made the hard disk immutable after installations, everything runs fine from my account.
now, when i log into OS X as a student and try to launch VirtualBox, i get:
"Could not lock the settings file '/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml'"
Of course, this happens because as a student i have only r-x permissions in /VirtualBox. On the other hand, i don't want to give students any chance to change anything in the virtual box settings (and the guest system as well).
Is there no way to do this?
Regards, sepp