Unable to add virtual machine to VMWare Server

[Paul Smith]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> When trying to add already existent virtual machines to VMware Server
> 1.X, I get the following error:
>
> "Unable to add virtual machine "/home/psmith/vmware/Windows 2000
> Professional/Windows 2000 Professional.vmx" to the inventory: No
> permission to perform this operation"
>
> Any ideas?

Solved meanwhile with the command (as root):

"vmware-cmd -s register <path to vmx for the guest you want to register>"

Paul