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[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Roger Oberholtzer <roger@xxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 09:59 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: 
> > Hello
> >
> > I just downloaded 11.1 and thought I would install it in vmware to have
> > a look around. I have not been able to do this as vmware complains that
> > it cannot find a hard disk. So, I tried a few things (made a new vmware
> > image and tried other openSUSE releases), and it seems that both 11.0
> > and 11.1 fail. 10.3, however, works fine.
> >
> > When 11.1 is booting, I see that it loads the LSI Logic 53C1030 driver,
> > and there are no complaints to the console.
> >
> > Host OS: openSUSE 10.0
> > VMware: 5.5.9 build-126128
> >
> > Have I missed something? As an aside, how can you get to the guest OS'
> > virtual terminals in vmware? I get to the host's virtual terminals,
> > which is not what I am after.
>
> Seems the openSUSE 11.x (kernel in general?) LSI 53C1030 SCSI driver
> does not play well with VMware. So, when making the virtual machine,
> select Custom, and then for the SCSI emulation, select Bus Logic instead
> of LSI. This option is available in VMWare 5.5.9. I do not know if it is
> everywhere. Then proceed as usual. Now the hard disk can be found.
>
> I see something similar in
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263883
>
> Comment #11 in the bug report implies that this should have been fixed
> long ago. I added a new comment that it maybe not fixed.

It is indeed fixed in newer VMware versions, not sure about VMware
workstation but it's fixed in VMware server.  5.5.9 sounds like an old
version of VMware workstation, 6.5 is recent isn't it?  It might be
fixed there...

Andreas
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