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VMware Linux Virtual Machine Hard Disk not found

In one sentence “Use LSI Logic as the SCSI controller in the virtual machine settings” When installing RedHat Linux 5 as a guest OS in VMware server, I kept getting a “no drives found” error in anaconda. Someone suggested I use the LSI logic driver, I mistakenly thought that meant a driver disk (dd.img), but that was not the case. The driver for the hard drive is specified when you are defining the virtual machine. Select Custom on the first page of the New Virtual Machine Wizard. Then Linux as the Guest Operating System. Select the next few things according to your own specifications, then when you get to Select I/O Adapter Types, select “LSI Logic” for the SCSI adapter. Then you can select SCSI as the Virtual Disk Type in the subsequent tab. This worked for me with RHEL4 and RHEL5 boot media. I was unable to boot with the default driver (BusLogic).

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9 Responses to “VMware Linux Virtual Machine Hard Disk not found”

  1. John Says:
    November 29th, 2007 at 7:43 pm

    It seems like you also have to set the VM’s RAM to 256MB. Go figure.

    Thanks

  2. ashwani Says:
    April 1st, 2008 at 12:40 am

    ur write bro i had same problem and i did as u did that worked for me buddy i chose lsi+scsi

    thank u
    have a nice life :-)

  3. Will Says:
    April 23rd, 2008 at 7:28 am

    That worked for me as well dude. Thanks for that.

  4. doni Says:
    August 19th, 2008 at 6:25 pm

    thanks that helps me alot :)

  5. steven Says:
    October 21st, 2008 at 4:45 pm

    thanks,help me a lot ,too….

  6. coral Says:
    November 17th, 2008 at 4:35 am

    gr8 sir.. it worked for me too

  7. kirti Says:
    January 27th, 2009 at 9:40 am

    hi
    it is also work for me
    thank u so much

  8. Madhanaya Says:
    March 15th, 2009 at 7:01 pm

    I have posted a complete how-to for the linux newbs at LinuxBuzz.net

  9. wimpunk Says:
    March 31st, 2009 at 12:22 pm

    I had some issues while installing SLES 11 and thanks to your blogpost, I got it fixed. Strange enough I had to do it invers: I removed the LSI Logic driver from the configuration.
    Read about my troubles on http://wimpunk.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/sles-11-and-vmware/

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