On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 11:37:53PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > Seems that none of the SCSI options work with the AMD64 mini.iso.. I > believe the device emulated is an LSI Logic SCSI adapter. (But am not > 100% certain since VMWare Fusion settings are a bit more Opaque than > other VMWare releases). I am using the predefined FreeBSD64 settings > profile in VMWare Fusion. > > I did manage to get it working with a virtual ATA controller though, > but got warning messages saying "Warning: Could not flush cache of > device /dev/ad0 - No such device." > > Interestingly even though the installer didn't see the SCSI devices, > once I was booted off an install I did on a virtual ATA device, I did > see this in dmesg.: > > Waiting 2 seconds for SCSI devices to settle > da0 at mpt0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: <VMware, VMware Virtual S 1.0> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > da0: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz DT, offset 127, 16bit) > da0: Command Queueing Enabled > da0: 8192MB (16777216 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1044C) > > and /dev/da0 exists (but all the other da* devices don't), and running > parted doesn't seem to see da0. > > On the flip side networking works.. so there is a mostly working > "headless" config for VMWare Fusion, and most likely VMWare > Workstation. > > One reason to get SCSI working is that VMWare ESXi does not seem to > have a virtual ATA controller available and only let's virtual SCSI > drives get added. (Pretty much all VMWare products provide an option > to run a virtual LSI Logic SCSI controller.) I am wondering if the LSI > Logic drivers that come with FreeBSD are proprietary blogs that got > stripped out of kfreebsd? > > Please let me know if there is any more output I can provide, or if > someone wants to directly interact with the VM at DC10. (I will be at > DebConf for most of Thursday and alternatively can plan to meet up any > evening this week.)
Please note that I am currently working on getting debian-installer using the 8.1 kernel instead of the 7.3. This should probably be retested after that, as a lot of drivers are going to change. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 [email protected] http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
