Ticklish Techs » VMWare http://www.ticklishtechs.net a mostly .NET but also some other cool techs blog Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:07:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 VMWare Workstation demands Administrator rights – even if you have those http://www.ticklishtechs.net/2010/01/19/vmware-workstation-demands-administrator-rights-even-if-you-have-those/ http://www.ticklishtechs.net/2010/01/19/vmware-workstation-demands-administrator-rights-even-if-you-have-those/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:53:09 +0000 Wolfram Bernhardt http://www.ticklishtechs.net/2010/01/19/vmware-workstation-demands-administrator-rights-even-if-you-have-those/ Whenever I move my system to a new laptop I create a virtual machine from my old system. Sometimes it is easier to access stuff I forget to copy from a running system than from mounted backup devices.

To create virtual machines from a running system I use VMWare Workstation, which outperforms VirtualPC by far (imho).

Some days ago I tried to create a VM from a Win7/64 system. I was quiet surprised when VMWare Workstation told me, I needed Administrator rights:

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So what – I have administrative rights. But the Workstation didn’t believe me. Since that held me from moving to my new laptop I was really p*ssed.

Luckily some smart guy found this solution.

I think this is clearly a bug, but so far VmWare Workstation demand Administrator-rights in the literal sense: It only accepts, when you are logged in as THE Administrator:

  • start c:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe from explorer using "execute as administrator".
  • type net user Administrator /active:yes
  • logoff & reboot
  • login as Administrator
  • create your image
  • Complain at VMWare.
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