It's vSphere5 (is that is an answer to your question). Should that make a difference?
Thanks Tom -----Original Message----- From: Lonnie Abelbeck [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 17 April 2012 13:14 To: AstLinux Users Mailing List Cc: Tom Chadwin Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Persistent storage under VMWare Hi Tom, What VMware are you using? It just worked for me. (VMware Fusion 3.1.2) Possibly you have disk options when setting up the VM. Sorry I don't have much for you. Lonnie On Apr 17, 2012, at 3:55 AM, Tom Chadwin wrote: > Hello all > > I am trying to set up a VMWare instance from the geni586 image, > following the instructions at > http://doc.astlinux.org/userdoc:tt_vmware. When I try to create persistent storage, either via the GUI or the CLI, I get: > > Format of drive /dev/sda failed, use fdisk manually. > > Can anyone point me towards why this happens? Ideally, I'd like to > sort out the root issue. If this is not possible, can anyone give me > the parameters for an ordinary storage configuration using fdisk? I > shall double-check the wiki to make sure I've not missed any stages in the config of the VM. > > Thanks > > Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [email protected].
