How to give non-admins access to the VMs in Hyper-V Manager?

[oynaz]

Hi Guys,

I am setting up a new server which we will use to host a number of VMs. Mostly, it is quite easy, but I cannot figure out how to give non-administrators access to the VMs in Hyper-V manager.

Googling it tells my that I have to assign the users to the Adminstrator role. I have done that, but they do still not have access.

Any ideas?

 

[Dahak]

I had seen this post a few days ago, and it explains what you want to do. I don't use hyper-v so I have not personally tried it but you can give it a shot

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_...ng-non-administrators-to-control-hyper-v.aspx

 

[oynaz]

That is exactly what I did, but that did not help :-(

 

[crash331]

Are you talking about letting them administer the VMs in hyper V, or talking about giving them access to the VM itself?

 

[oynaz]

I want to let them administer the VMs in Hyper-V

 

[crash331]

I'm assuming AD is installed/the machine is on a domain?

 

[crash331]

Hm, I just tried it with my server (no domain, it's in a workgroup) and followed the blog entry linked above and it worked for me.


I logged in with a test account. Hyper V manager loaded, but it said I was not authorized to see the machines. I then added the test user to the admin group in the mmc snapin that was editing the xml file. I switched back to the test account and all VMs then showed up. I didn't try to limit which VMs I could see, however.

Can you at least get the other accounts to see a list of VMs?

 

[crash331]

How to set up scopes:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd283076(v=ws.10).aspx

How to assign VMs to a scope so only certain users can see certain VMs:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/jhoward/...the-hyper-v-authorization-model-part-two.aspx


Part one of the above link:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/jhoward/...the-hyper-v-authorization-model-part-one.aspx