Catimimi a écrit : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : >> On Saturday 08 December 2007 03:23:53 am Catimimi wrote: >> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : >>> >>>> After trying a bunch of things on my problem of accessing a >>>> physical xp >>>> installation from my vmware server inside my 10.3 install, the final >>>> conclusion is that it can not be done. Suse 10.3 presents my >>>> hda1partition as sda1 to vmware and thus to all the virtual machines i >>>> can set up thru vmware, yet a dual boot configuration maintains the >>>> ide >>>> character of the hard drive. Thus, when booting from a dual boot, the >>>> doze partition knows it is an ide, when i try to access it thru vmware >>>> doze is being told it is a scsi!!!!! >>>> >>> I don't agree, if you connect this drive to a vmware IDE controller (as >>> I told you), windows >>> is told that it is an IDE partition. >>> >>> Michel >>> >> >> Joe, >> yes, itried to boot with hwprobe=-modules.pata and i did check the >> spelling. It did not stop calling the ide drive sda. >> Michel, >> when vmware is told that the only drives that exist are scsi devices, >> it does not give any option on naming a physical drive as an ide >> drive, it only gives me my pick of sdx devices to choose for my >> physical drive. yes, i can install vmscsi and install an xp system, >> however when it all goes back to ide in a direct boot , doze just >> freezes up. >> The only way out of this is to have linucs present an ide device to >> vmware when linucs is running. Or I could switch to a scsi drive, but >> that is basically impossible on a laptop. Or somehow hack the .vmx >> file to see ide, hey, that I did not try, maybe there is some hope >> there! ok, i try one more time, tomorrow! >> thanks for encouraging me to not quit just yet:) >> d. >> > First : did you try to connect your drive via the IDE interface of > VMware, without the vmware scsi driver ? > Try that, it'll work!! > This can't be done with the vmware assistant, you've to manually edit the configuration file as I told you. Michel. > Second : when Linux calls a drive sdx, it is just a generic > appellation, that doesn't mean > that it is a scsi device. > > Michel. > >
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