On 7/24/07, Web and Co sprl - Patrick DERWAEL <<a href="mailto:pderwael@webandco.be">pderwael@webandco.be</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"> <div> <div> <div style="text-align: center;" align="center"> <hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"> </div> From: <a href="mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com</a>] On Behalf Of Web and Co sprl - Patrick DERWAEL Sent: dimanche 22 juillet 2007 16:43 To: <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> Subject: Fedora 7 & VM Server </div><div> Hi list, I encounter some issues for installing Fedora 7 under VMware Server (1.0.1.29996) Host OS = Windows 2003 STD edition 64bits SP1 Installation setup as follows: new VM - custom config - Other Linux 2.6.x Kernel VM name = F7-WAC-SRV-PENT-01, Location = H:\WAC-SRV-PENT-01 (note: drive H - NTFS - 50Gb total, 25Gb available) VM access : no private access VM account = local system account On host startup : do not power on VM On host shutdown : shut down guest OS 1 processor, RAM = 1024Mb, bridgegd networking I/O adapter type : IDE = ATAPI SCSI = LSI Logic (default value) Disk : Create new, Disk type = SCSI (recommended), disk size = 8GB, allocate all space now Disk file name = Other Linux 2.6.x kernel.vmdk Click "finish" --> creating the disk It ends up on the following error message: Unable to add virtual machine "H:\WAC-SRV_PENT-01\Other Linux 2.6.x kernel.vmx" to the inventory Invalid virtual machine 3 files have been created under H:\WAC-SRV_PENT-01: Other Linux 2.6.x kernel.vmdk (1k) Other Linux 2.6.x kernel.vmx (1K) Other Linux 2.6.x kernel-flat.vmdk (8Gb) If I then "file-open" the vmx file, the VM seems ok. I can point the VM CD to the Fedora7 ISO file and boot the VM, the installation process seems ok until the installed tries to partition the VM disk : there is NO disk available for partitioning... I have reproduced this process a number of times; this is definitely a "recurring" behaviour of VM. Any clue would of course be *very* appreciated!!! PS: this is cross-posted on both VMware forum and Fedora mailing list. Patrick Derwael WEB And Co sprl</div> Here is some more information: Upgrading from VM Server 1.0.1 to 1.0.3 makes no difference whatsoever And here is the content of the vmx file config.version = "8" virtualHW.version = "4" scsi0.present = "TRUE" scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic" memsize = "1024" scsi0:0.present = "TRUE" scsi0:0.fileName = "Other Linux 2.6.x kernel.vmdk" ide1:0.present = "TRUE" ide1:0.fileName = "H:\Programs\Fedora Core 7\F-7-i386-DVD.iso" ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image" floppy0.fileName = "A:" Ethernet0.present = "TRUE" displayName = "F7-WAC-SRV-PENT-01" guestOS = "other26xlinux" autostop = "softpoweroff" priority.grabbed = "normal" priority.ungrabbed = "normal" ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE" scsi0:0.redo = "" ethernet0.addressType = "generated" uuid.location = "56 4d e4 68 c2 de 95 15-33 d1 6f b1 85 4c 06 b9" uuid.bios = "56 4d e4 68 c2 de 95 15-33 d1 6f b1 85 4c 06 b9" ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:4c:06:b9" ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0" Any help would be *really* appreciated </div> </div> </blockquote></div> Try using VMware Buglogic SCSI interface when creating the drive.