Insufficient permission to access file

Question

I receive an error while powering on a VM:

Unable to open file "D:\Virtual Machines\Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6\Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.vmdk":

Insufficient permission to access file.

My system: Windows 7 32-bit with VMware Player.......some days it works but I (edited) did services run manually? Now am getting above error. What can I do?

Solution

Same error, I had taken over the PC from a past developer and tried local Admin logon, no help.

I first tried setting 'Full Control' security permissions in Properties for the project and file it was complaining about, no luck.

So I went up to the parent dir of all the VM's on the box, set 'Everyone' full control, and the VM opened right up.

Comments

[BlueBerry - Vignesh4303]

have u tried starting virtual machine with admin permissions?

[Admin]

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