Please Help vmware server and guest OS problem

[Maluco]

i have vmware server and windows XP OS guest. If my OS guest folder is under /home/myusername/WinXP are have no problem, but if I copy my WinXP folder to my second internal hardrive ( /media/My500 ) my guest OS do not start. I can see very quickly a red X on the network card and CDrom icons on the bottom of my VMware Server Console.
Thank you in advance for any help.

Luiz

[Nano Geek]

The problem is that VMWare is looking in a specific folder for the VM file.
I believe that you can change where it looks under preferences.

[Maluco]

I tried that too but didn't work.
I am lost .

[hyper_ch]

just symlink it... then all path should be fine again....

[Maluco]

Tks Hyper_ch

I tried it but didn't work.

[Maluco]

Please help.
why my guest OS only run if are on my system disk ? if I move to external disk, stop work. I see a red X on the NIC card icon and on virtual disk icon.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[bodhi.zazen]

Sounds like a permissions problem (with the red X thing).

[Maluco]

I know but I don't know how and where to fix it.

Thanks anyway.

[bodhi.zazen]

OK, here are some links on permissions :

http://www.zzee.com/solutions/linux-permissions.shtml

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FilePermissions

You can list the permissions with :

ls -l