A note about VMware-Server machine security

VMware allow setting a virtual machine as a private machine. By doing so, it actually adds to “/etc/vmware/vm-list-private” an additional comment, stating who is the owner of the machine. For example: cat /etc/vmware/vm-list-private # This file is automatically generated. # Hand-editing this file is not recommended. config “/vmware/Centos4-01/Centos4-01.vmx|root” config “/vmware/Centos4-02/Centos4-02.vmx|user” While it is very effective…