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

[Robert Adkins]

	I could only suggest putting a filesystem on the partition on
intends to run a VMWare session/image from, instead of leaving it raw.

	I am having no issues with running VMWare (Player) on my laptop
running OpenSuSe 10.3. It runs absolutely fine with the virtual machine
image sitting in my home directory.

	-Rob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org 
> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Kulkis
> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 11:04 PM
> To: mdlug at mdlug.org
> Subject: [mdlug] [Fwd: [opensuse] vmware and fake scsi devs]
> 
> 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.
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
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