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By thomas - Posted on 03 November 2007

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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Dude it even worked for RHEL6
Submitted by JK (not verified) on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 19:07.

Dude it even worked for RHEL6 thanks a lot.....

Thank u very much.... i had
Submitted by Jake (not verified) on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 02:11.

Thank u very much....
i had this problem from long time but was able to resolve after reading your post..

Thank you
Submitted by Tenax (not verified) on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 04:09.

Thank you

Its really work. Thanks for
Submitted by imran (not verified) on Mon, 09/06/2010 - 23:43.

Its really work. Thanks for your post.

Thanks dude. It worked well
Submitted by Turco_BR (not verified) on Fri, 07/23/2010 - 11:37.

Thanks dude. It worked well !!

Thanks for the post. Was
Submitted by BearTel (not verified) on Wed, 07/14/2010 - 19:21.

Thanks for the post. Was having problems getting our asterisk office phone system running under vmware. This corrected the issue. Cheers.

Thanks buddy. I had same
Submitted by rahul (not verified) on Wed, 06/02/2010 - 04:13.

Thanks buddy. I had same issue and with ur solution it got reslved.

I had some issues while
Submitted by wimpunk (not verified) on Tue, 03/31/2009 - 14:22.

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/

I have posted a complete
Submitted by Madhanaya (not verified) on Sun, 03/15/2009 - 21:01.

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

hi it is also work for
Submitted by kirti (not verified) on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 12:40.

hi
it is also work for me
thank u so much

gr8 sir.. it worked for me
Submitted by coral (not verified) on Mon, 11/17/2008 - 07:35.

gr8 sir.. it worked for me too

thanks,help me a lot ,too....
Submitted by steven (not verified) on Tue, 10/21/2008 - 18:45.

thanks,help me a lot ,too....

thanks that helps me alot :)
Submitted by doni (not verified) on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 20:25.

thanks that helps me alot :)

That worked for me as well
Submitted by Will (not verified) on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 09:28.

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

ur write bro i had same
Submitted by ashwani (not verified) on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 02:40.

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 :-)

It seems like you also have
Submitted by John (not verified) on Thu, 11/29/2007 - 22:43.

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

Thanks

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