On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 11:13:35PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Aurelien Jarno <aurel...@aurel32.net> 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? >
I hope next week, it will also depends on how long the ftpmasters will accept the packages. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100806031615.gh4...@hall.aurel32.net