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Sure it might. You need to create a udev rule to map the tape drive
to /dev/SonyDAT or some such other meaningful name, and also set the
group and privs.
On 05/14/08 15:20, Chris Jones wrote:
> Actually, this is weird. I think I figured out what is going on.
>
> It was /dev/sg0, but after a reboot it is now /dev/sg3, with owner of
> root/tape. So, I added my user into the tape group and remapped vmware
> to use /dev/sg3, and now it seems to be working. I'm not sure why it
> switched from sg0 to sg3, other than the system update that ran.
> Hopefully that's why the ID changed. Kind of scary though, hopefully
> the generic scsi ID won't be jumping around every time the server reboots.
>
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Chris Jones <techmaster@gmail.com
> <mailto:techmaster@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I'm not seeing a vmware user on the system. How can you see what
> user a process is running as?
>
>
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Petri Laihonen
> <pietu@weblizards.net <mailto:pietu@weblizards.net>> wrote:
>
> Try adding a vmware user into the root group.
> If I remember correctly, vmaware runs as it's own user.....
>
> Petri
>
> Chris Jones wrote:
> > In linux, how do you tell it what user you want a daemon to
> run as?
> >
> > I'm having issues with vmware in linux, with a tape drive. I
> need to
> > map a scsi tape drive into a vm, but the vm doesn't have access to
> > /dev/sg0. I can go chmod 777 the /dev/sg0 and it works
> perfect, but
> > as soon as I reboot it goes back to 660 and an owner of root/root.
> > So, how can I ensure that vmware is either running as root (yeah,
> > probably a bad idea) or make sure that the permissions stick
> for that
> > device?
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
We want... a Shrubbery!!
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