Then I’ll have another policy run either at logout or every 15 (or both) to copy it back up again. Specifically, on login I’ll have a script copy /Users/Shared/VirtualBox.xml down to ~/Library/VirtualBox.
What I think I’ll do instead of your links is to set up some Casper Suite policies. app file but couldn’t find a spot to edit from “~/Library/VirtualBox” to “/Users/Shared”. I set an OS X environment variable (thusly: ) but VirtualBox doesn’t honor the setting. Problem is, I’ve not been able to find it. That implies there is a feature in the software that we should be able to leverage to change the path and not have to deal with these dynamic links and startup daemons. I found a site explaining that in Windows you could set an environment variable to tell VirtualBox where to look for VirtualBox.xml. Here’s links to the script and the accompanying launchdaemon on my GitHub repo (make owner and group edits as appropriate). The permissions change happens when the VM is shutdown. I also needed to set up a launchdaemon and script to make sure that the permissions stayed set, as VirtualBox on the Mac will reset the permissions of the VM to be exclusively owned by the account that last ran it. It also means that if the VirtualBox.xml configuration file stored in /path/to/shared/location is deleted or moved, it disappears for everyone. Note: Because all accounts are linking to the same file, any changes to the VirtualBox configuration by one user will show up for everyone else as well.
Adjust the permissions of /path/to/shared/location/VirtualBox.xml so that all of your users can read and write to this file. These commands will copy the configured VirtualBox.xml file to the shared location, back up the existing VirtualBox.xml in ~/Library/VirtualBox, and make a symbolic link to /path/to/shared/location/VirtualBox.xml in ~/Library/VirtualBox.Ĥ. Ln -s /path/to/shared/location/VirtualBox.xml Mv ~/Library/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml ~/Library/VirtualBox/
Go into Terminal and run the following commands:Ĭp ~/Library/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml /path/to/shared/location/VirtualBox.xml Configure the VM to be the way you want it.ģ. Put the VM in a place that everyone can access. In the event that someone else needs this, here’s one way to share a VirtualBox VM among multiple users on the same Mac.ġ. Since that was locking out everyone else, this was a problem.įortunately, I was not the first person to run into this issue. Later that day, I get an update letting me know “Hey, we’re having permissions issues.” When I checked the VM, it looked like VirtualBox was giving ownership of the VM to the last user who had used the VM. The VM had been already set up in /Users/Shared/VM_directory_name, so I reset the permissions on the VM so that it was read/write by a group that all the users were in and went off to the next issue.
I was asked at work to set a Fedora Linux VirtualBox virtual machine so that it could be accessed by multiple users on the same Mac.
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