On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Aurelien Jarno <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
That sounds promising. Do you have an idea when it will be ready for testing? > -- > 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]
