Limit Access to VM Applications for Mac Users

[Evaluator]

I am a new user of Fusion. I am using intel based iMac and have setup Windows XP and installed some applications like games etc in VM. How can I restrict Users from accessing some applications on this VM? I want to use parental control to restrict these applications, is it possible?

[admin]

Short answer: I don't think so. You'll need some parental control software in the guest.

Long answer: Fusion's view of the guest is very low-level -- we don't see programs or files, we see machine instructions and data blocks. This makes it a little difficult to tell what's running, much less restrict it We can get around this a bit with Tools (e.g. this is why Unity can recognize applications), but blocking applications is not currently something we do.

[FrayAdjacent]

You'd have to set access rights in the VM itself. Do it just like you would on Windows XP running on a physical machine.