Virtual Machine Guest Operations Privileges
Published: 2026-01-19 · Archived: 2026-04-05 15:25:54 UTC
Virtual Machine Guest Operations
Privilege
Name
Description
Effective on
Object
Allows virtual machine guest operations that involve modifying the alias for
the virtual machine.
Virtual
machines
Allows virtual machine guest operations that involve querying the alias for
the virtual machine.
Virtual
machines
Allows virtual machine guest operations that involve modifications to a
guest operating system in a virtual machine, such as transferring a file to the
virtual machine.
No vSphere Client user interface elements are associated with this privilege.
Virtual
machines
Allows virtual machine guest operations that involve running an application
in the virtual machine.
No vSphere Client user interface elements are associated with this privilege.
Virtual
machines
Allows virtual machine guest operations that involve querying the guest
operating system, such as listing files in the guest operating system.
No vSphere Client user interface elements are associated with this privilege.
Virtual
machines
Source: https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vsphere/vsphere/7-0/vsphere-security-7-0/defined-privileges/virtual-machine-guest-operations-privileges.html
https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vsphere/vsphere/7-0/vsphere-security-7-0/defined-privileges/virtual-machine-guest-operations-privileges.html
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