Re: [opensuse] vmware and fake scsi devs

On Tuesday 04 December 2007 06:33:33 am Catimimi wrote:
kanenas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx a écrit :
It seems there is one major downside to all the disks being "called" scsi
devices in 10.3. There are applications that take /dev/scx literally as a
scsi disk x. One such application is vmware. This ended being a major
problem when i tried to use a raw partition as a physical vmware disk on
my laptop. The actual disk is an ide device, but the first partition in
my Suse 10.3 install is called /dev/sda1 and that is what it passes to
vmware as the actual physical disk. Vmware has for a long time stated
that it does not boot from physical scsi devices and thus it keels over
when it sees that the raw device is scsi.
Is there an easy way to pass the actual partition type to vmware
(workstation 4.x or server 1.x) in 10.3 or do i go back to 10.2?
thanks,
d.

Hello,

I use VMware with SuSE for years, now it is VMware 6 with openSUSE 10.3 .
I always boot VMware with physical SCSI drives and it works !
Furthermore, with VMware you can configure so that the first IDE unit is
your sdx drive
and it will work. So no problem at all.

Michel.

Michael,
in my case i have an ide disk that is being called an scsi device by libata,
so vmware does not know how to deal with it, i think... But I i would be very
interested in your setup. How do you use the physical drives? Are they dual
boot (direct boot and as vms thru vmware)? are the partitions full
functioning operating systems when they are selected as vms or are they
created after a physical disk is picked in a vm setup and then the os is
installed? any other info would also be appreciated. if you think it goes off
topic, please email directly.
thanks,
d.
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