[mdlug] [Fwd: [opensuse] vmware and fake scsi devs]

[Aaron Kulkis]

An interesting issue came up on the Opensuse list.

By some mechanism, SuSE 10.3 presents all disks as SCSI
(even IDE), causing problems with VMWare.

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Subject: [opensuse] vmware and fake scsi devs
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 15:38:26 -1000
From: kanenas at hawaii.rr.com
To: opensuse at opensuse.org

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.