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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