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this morning i start this topic with a problem in my virtual machine what i install and configureted in my laptop. Is a freebsd .iso version 8.2. Right now i want to reboot the system and is impossible, because give me the next message: Operation not permitted.

Any of you has gone through this kind of problem1?

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Are you root? In the other topic I suspect it failed to work because (as indicated by the $-prompt) you had no root privileges (what was what the topic was about). If your "user switching" problem is resolved now, try su, followed by reboot in the root shell. – sr_ Mar 13 '12 at 13:27
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And in general: when you ask this sort of question, show us exactly what you typed, and show us exactly how the system responded. This will let us provide more accurate and timely answers to your questions. – larsks Mar 13 '12 at 13:37
hi again, i'm the user because i can not switch to root account., i try to close, open, kill etc and stuff., but right now i am empty of any ideea how to resolve this issue, and in another pc work like a charm., this is AMAZING! i open another session Alt+F2 and try to login like root, but when i press enter after enter the username and the password he show me again the same thing., so again to put the user and the password! imageshack.us/photo/my-images/337/errooor.png – pstnc Mar 13 '12 at 13:42
@ larsks sorry for late response i'm at work right now .. i attached the screenshot., thank you – pstnc Mar 13 '12 at 13:43
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@pstnc: I still think you're problem is a messed up root shell setting (as mentioned in the other thread); you apparently have not fixed this, yet. Since you cannot use reboot to reboot the virtual machine as a non-root user, sudo is not installed, you might have to use the VMPlayer's tools, like this probably – sr_ Mar 13 '12 at 13:57
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