Well, my progress so far has me feeling that, for the last 3 hours, I have 
been dealing with the new Sony product reviewed several months back in The 
Onion... ("Sony announces a brand new stupid POS that doesn't $#&@ work")

WHY do two separate downloads of vmscsi-1.2.0.4.flp end up with the 
delightful Setup message, "Setup cannot copy the file: vmscsi.sys"?"

I'd just forget this mess and try a P2V from an existing physical. 
HOWEVER, I've come across enough in this futile effort to see that P2V for 
XP won't work without this driver...
--
richard

"N Parr" <npar...@mortonind.com> wrote on 12/28/2009 09:57:22 AM:

> If I remember my 3.5 days change your controller to the Buslogic and
> windows should find the controller and disk just fine without any 
> extra drivers.
> Or load the floppy image that comes along with the server and it 
> will have your drivers.
> 
> From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] 
> Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 9:50 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: XP Pro workstation on VMware

> 
> Greetings! 
> 
> I am needing to set up an XP Pro workstation in VMware.  My problem 
> comes when seeking a disk in the initial Windows setup... 
> 
> If I do not hit "F6" to specify a mass storate device, the install 
> fails.  Then, for some reason, I am no longer able to boot off the 
> ISO image.  Subsequent "Ctrl-Alt-Del" signals result in a black 
> console with a blinking "_" in the upper left corner.  SO, I have to
> delete that "VM" and start from scratch... 
> 
> Hitting "F6", I am given the choices of either not specifying a mass
> storage device (ie, hard drive) and "continuing".  We know that gets
> me nowwhere... 
> 
> The alternative choice is to hit "S".  With that, I am told to 
> insert (that is, mount an image as a floppy drive) with the drivers 
> for a virutal SCSI disk. 
> 
> When I try to build the VM, I do not seem to be able to trick the 
> system into making the virtual disk I create to act as either an IDE
> or a SATA drive.  It seems to insist on being SCSI. 
> 
> SO, is there any way to set up a blank VM that believes its hard 
> drive to be IDE or SATA?  Otherwise, is there a "VMWare SCSI driver"
> I can mount as a virutal floppy? 
> 
> OH YEAH - VMWare ESX 3.5; VM Infrastructure 2.5... 
> 
> Thanks!
> -- 
> Richard D. McClary 
> Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group 
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