Public bug reported:
I suspect this is because the alternate installer kernel that is
available for the server variant, doesn't have the necessary drivers.
To confirm this, I opened the initrd file that is available in the ISO
under the "install" directory on the ISO and I don't see the
vmw_pvscsi.ko module over there.
bash-3.2$ pwd
/tmp/delete/tmp/lib/modules/2.6.32-14-generic/kernel
bash-3.2$ ls drivers/scsi/
3w-9xxx.ko arcmsr eata.ko ips.ko megaraid.ko qla4xxx
scsi_transport_sas.ko
3w-xxxx.ko atp870u.ko fdomain.ko iscsi_tcp.ko mvsas
qlogicfas408.ko scsi_transport_spi.ko
a100u2w.ko BusLogic.ko gdth.ko libiscsi.ko osst.ko
raid_class.ko stex.ko
aacraid ch.ko hptiop.ko libiscsi_tcp.ko pcmcia
scsi_debug.ko sym53c8xx_2
advansys.ko dc395x.ko imm.ko libsas ppa.ko scsi_tgt.ko
tmscsim.ko
aic7xxx dmx3191d.ko initio.ko lpfc qla1280.ko
scsi_transport_fc.ko
aic94xx dpt_i2o.ko ipr.ko megaraid qla2xxx
scsi_transport_iscsi.ko
This module is required in the installer kernel because VMware supports PVSCSI
as the boot adapter.
Please note that the vmw_pvscsi modules does exist in the generic linux package
which installs the kernel to be used after the installation.
Please note that this problem does *not* exist with the Desktop variant,
we are able to install Ubuntu 10.04 in a VM which uses pvscsi as the
boot device. I guess the installer and the generic kernel are same for
that case ?
We also plan to support vmxnet3 as the only ethernet device in the VM
and for that we will require the vmxnet3.ko module too in the installer
kernel.
Thanks.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Unable to detect VMware's PVSCSI device during installation.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/531017
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