VMware Workstation with raw disk in F12

[Michal]

On 17/12/2009 16:49, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> I'm trying to work with a dual-boot machine, with VMware Workstation 7,
> Fedora 12 as the host, and WinXP as the guest.  
> 
> When I define the VM and select the raw disk, VMware configures the disk
> as SCSI, even though the hardware is SATA.  I changed the .vmdk file to
> make the disk IDE and set the geometry appropriately, but it still
> doesn't work.  ISTR that there are also some changes needed to the .vmx
> file, but I can't seem to find any reference to it when I google.  I
> have an old configuration (that was working before I made some changes
> to the disk partitions) that I've tried to extract changes from, but the
> new version is different enough that I can't tell exactly what I need.
> 
> Any hints or sources?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

I am confused what the problem is. Yes VMware configures it as SCSI even
though it's SATA...it will still work and run with no problems...