Question about using VMware Fusion with mutiple user accounts on the mac

I know this isn't a Fusion forum as such, but wondered if anyone knew the answer to this problem. I installed the latest version of fusion on my machine and a copy of windows XP. It's very good and am impressed with the ease and speed of it. However, I am the administrator and my 3 children have user accounts on the same computer. When my son logs in to his user account and starts up Fusion to do some homework on a windows only program, there isn't a virtual machine to start up. Does this mean that using fusion I can only use one mac user account? Or can I move the windows folder to a location for all to use, or is there a setting that I need to alter in Fusion? Perhaps I need to install windows again on his account. If so will this cause other potential problems and unnecessarily hog hard drive space. I would prefer fusion to boot camp because I need both windows and mac at the same time. Any help would be appreciated.

Did you ask the VMware Community?
My guess is yes, you need to put it in a Public folder or outside your account. XP doesn't take a lot of disk space, so maybe they should have their own (but then you need another copy/license).
You may need to edit one of the prefs files pointing to the image, unless an alias or symbolic link will do.
VirtualBox is free VM and is probably more than able to handle their needs.
Probably need / want to create a new Windows user account while you are at it.

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