Posted on Monday 30th of April 2007 at 14:29 in Tutorials

Configuring VMWare for IDE rather than SCSI (good for installing Linux)

Something I've stumbled upon numerous times is the difficulty of installing some Linux distros in VMWare - they sometimes object to the SCSI drive configuration. Here is an image-heavy tutorial explaining how.

1. File - New - Virtual Machine. Load the wizard.

2. Instead of opting for a "Typical" setup, click for a "Custom" one:

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3. Select a new workstation

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4. Pick your operating system

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5. Go through a few menus until you reach the "Select I/O adapter". Leave this as LSI logic but it's the next few pages you need.

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6. Create a new virtual disk.

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7. Select "IDE" as the virtual hard drive.

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Job done.

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Thanks bro

by just a duck on Saturday 1st of November 2008 at 22:04

Ridiculous, all serious linux distributions have exceptional SCSI support!
(And I’ve tested it myself on vmware, numerous times.)

by pfff... on Wednesday 2nd of July 2008 at 16:53

...you ought to be a teacher, my friend. Thanks.

by bushman on Tuesday 15th of May 2007 at 01:43

I’m not sure I understand the statement/question but...

Sometimes Linux won’t work in VMWare on the default SCSI hard-drive setting - so you need to use this tutorial to set the drive to be a virtual IDE drive.

by Seopher on Wednesday 9th of May 2007 at 00:32

Why SCSI is recommended?

by Utpal on Tuesday 8th of May 2007 at 22:37

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