Vmware Insufficient Permission To Access File

• Cannot power on a virtual machine
• Powering on a virtual machine fails
• You see the error:
  

1. Vmware Insufficient Permission To Access File Type
2. Vmware Insufficient Permission To Access File Ubuntu

To fix this file access error, close VMware Workstation, right click the VMware Workstation shortcut icon and click Properties. Then click the Compatibility tab and tick “Run this program as an administrator”. Click OK, then launch VMware Workstation. Cannot power on the virtual machineYou see the error:Check for missing files failed: Insufficient permissions to access the file When restoring a snapshot, you Investigating permissions for Fusion virtual machines (1020786) VMware KB. Go to the Applications folder. Go to the VMware application. Right-click VMware and go to ' Get Info '. The Info window with ' Permissions ' (allowed users) for VMware will pop up.

Vmware Insufficient Permission To Access File Type

Cannot open the configuration file Path-to-vmx-file.
Cannot open file 'Path-to-vmx-file': Reason.

I recently acquired a Supermicro SYS-1029P-N32R with 16 14TB NVMe SSD's (Micron 9300 Pro) at work. We have 100 gigabit networking on the box to our VMWare hosts. Nov 30, 2011 The issue is with the permissions on the folder and file. You can address it by changing the owner and group of the file to match your new user. You can get into this state when moving a vm from one user to another on the same system. When copying from one system to another this should be taken care of for you.

Or

Failed - An error occurred while opening configuration file 'Path-to-vmx-file': Could not find the file.

• For example:
  
  • Cannot open the configuration file /vmfs/volumes/4cbde796-73dd1e7e-021c-18b1166a9055/TMPSQL/TMPSQL.vmx.
    Cannot open file '/vmfs/volumes/4cbde796-73dd1e7e-021c-18b1166a9055/TMPSQL/TMPSQL.vmx': 16 (Device or resource busy).
  • Cannot open the configuration file /vmfs/volumes/bc8e8cc7-218b1a3a/Test_VM/Test_VM.vmx.
    Cannot open file '/vmfs/volumes/bc8e8cc7-218b1a3a/Test_VM/Test_VM.vmx': 13 (Permission denied).

I have the pre-made ESXI VMprotect8 virtual machine running. I ran it on a trial and then inserted the keys when I purchased it. I have rebooted it a couple times during the trial and after without issue. The software runs fine in all regards.

I return from the holidays and I realize one of my 2 NFS stores (drives) that it uses as back destinations will not unmount or display in the web interface. So I try and reboot the VM. The VM will not shut down so I have to power it off.

I go to restart the VM and this is what I get

I go to restart the VM and this is what I get

An error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM Acronis Backup.
Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/0a56f9ab-87b0e662/Acronis Backup/Acronis Backup.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
Insufficient permission to access file

Any ideas how I can recover this?

Hello Steve,

Thank you for posting.

It is not clear at the moment what causes this issue. As a temporary workaround I would recommend editing the appliance settings and removing your local attached storage: /vmfs/volumes/0a56f9ab-87b0e662/Acronis Backup/Acronis Backup.vmdk

There is a similar post on VMware forums, you can take a look at it here. Most likely you will need to contact VMware support to address the NFS datastore issue.

Please let me know if you have additional questions.

Vmware Insufficient Permission To Access File Ubuntu

Thank you.