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

[Aaron Kulkis]

Robert Adkins wrote:
> 	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.

That's good to know.  Perhaps it is older version of VMWare
that don't deal with SCSI very well.


> 
> 	-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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