On Tuesday 04 December 2007 06:33:33 am Catimimi wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > > 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. > > Hello, > > I use VMware with SuSE for years, now it is VMware 6 with openSUSE 10.3 . > I always boot VMware with physical SCSI drives and it works ! > Furthermore, with VMware you can configure so that the first IDE unit is > your sdx drive > and it will work. So no problem at all. > > Michel.
Michael, in my case i have an ide disk that is being called an scsi device by libata, so vmware does not know how to deal with it, i think... But I i would be very interested in your setup. How do you use the physical drives? Are they dual boot (direct boot and as vms thru vmware)? are the partitions full functioning operating systems when they are selected as vms or are they created after a physical disk is picked in a vm setup and then the os is installed? any other info would also be appreciated. if you think it goes off topic, please email directly. thanks, d. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
