Thread: Platform's OCS v5 on VMware?

Hi

I don't see a current plan to correct this as it is a problem with the dell drivers that work only on Dell hardware. You may wish to raise this issue to your Dell representatives.

Alternatively, you can obtain OCS generic or use Kusu.

- Shutdown the Vmware software.
- Open your virtual machine .vmx file
- Comment out any scsi0 options.

This works with OCS 5.1 Dell Edition and VMware workstation 6.0.

Here is an example:

config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"
numvcpus = "2"
#scsi0.present = "TRUE"
#scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
memsize = "1024"
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.fileName = "node1.vmdk"
ide0:0.writeThrough = "TRUE"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "/dev/scd0"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE"
floppy0.fileName = "/dev/fd0"
displayName = "node1"
guestOS = "otherlinux-64"
priority.grabbed = "normal"
priority.ungrabbed = "normal"
powerType.powerOff = "hard"
powerType.powerOn = "hard"
powerType.suspend = "hard"
powerType.reset = "hard"

#scsi0.present = "TRUE"
#scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
Ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
Ethernet0.connectionType = "custom"
Ethernet0.vnet = "/dev/vmnet1"
Ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

ide0:0.redo = ""
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
uuid.location = "56 4d 67 5a 0d 23 bd 78-38 a7 e1 bf 84 21 32 b3"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 67 5a 0d 23 bd 78-38 a7 e1 bf 84 21 32 b3"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:21:32:b3"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

You can also just use IDE disks too in your vmware configuration.