Problems with 6.0-release inside vmware 5

[Joao Barros]

On 11/6/05, João Carlos Mendes Luís <jonny at jonny.eng.br> wrote:
> Joao Barros wrote:
> > On 11/6/05, João Carlos Mendes Luís <jonny at jonny.eng.br> wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>    I tried to install a vmware 5 virtual machine with 6.0-RELEASE, using
> >>physical partitions.  In this mode, even ATA disks appear as SCSI to the guest
> >>system.  In VMWARE ghest, this also means a buslogic mpt controller.
> >>
> >>    Up to 5.4-stable, this worked ok.  But at 6.0-release, the mpt controller is
> >>detectd, but no disk is found.  Any hints?
> >
> >
> > I have 6.0 working under VMWare 5.0 using physical partitions.
> > When you add a new disk you are given an advanced option where you can
> > specify IDE or SCSI. VMWare by default goes SCSI, so you must have
> > missed it as it's very common to happen.
>
>     For me, it only asks for IDE or SCSI on logical disks.  Maybe because I am
> not using the whole disk, but only some of its partitions.
>
>     My main intent is to be able to dual boot Windows and FreeBSD, and keep both
> running, with Windows vmware hosting FreeBSD (I would prefer the other way, but
> vmware3 is a bit old).  I need a secondary root partition, because of kernel and
> config changes, but the data partitions could be shared.
>
>    BTW: Maybe this can help.  I'll copy scsi@, maybe they can find this problem
> quicker.
>
>     The only messages sent by the mpt driver are:
>
> mpt0: <LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 Adapter> port 0x1080-0x10ff mem
> 0xec800000-0xec800fff irq 17 at device 16.0 on pci0
> mpt0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> mpt0: MPI Version=1.2.0.0
> mpt0: Unhandled Event Notify Frame.  Event 0xa.
>
>    If I enable verbose booting, there are to many messages for me to understand
> each one.
>
>     Also: In the install CD fixit shell, "camcontrol devlist" finds no device,
> but "camcontrol devlist -v" finds two VMware devices <VMware, Virtual S 1.0>, at
> scbus target 0 and 1.  If I do a "camcontrol rescan all", and then another
> "camcontrol devlist -v", even these devices disappear.
>
>     I did also try disabling ACPI during boot, but no luck.

I still believe you are not doing it right.
When you are configuring VMWare, on the Add Harddisk Wizard, on the
final steps, when you get to the "Specify Disk File" do you see an
"Advanced" button? Does it show SCSI or IDE?
Btw, mine only says IDE

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Joao Barros