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run vmware-vmx processes as non-root

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I'm sure this question has been asked, but I have no idea of how to phrase my search.

 

My issue is this - we have a NAS that's squashing root, the virtual machines reside on an NFS export on said NAS, and the vmware-vmx processes are owned by root.  Even if I choose a non-root user during the vmware-config.pl script, it still runs the processes as root.  When it comes time to spin up the VM, it barks that it doesn't have sufficient privs to the disk (regardless of how I chmod it).  The easy way out is to disable root_squash, but that's not an option.  Is there a place to modify who owns the vmware processes during VM execution?

 

Thanks in advance.


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