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Vucko
Joined: Sun Mar 22, 2009 1:32 am
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 No HDD in Virtual Machine BIOS Well, when one problem ocurred, there is a second and third and...
Finally, after a few days of torture on installing ESXi I was able to make my first virtual machine. (on ESXi of course) After that I notice that I can't see any HDD in the BIOS (of that virtual machine). So I went to settings of that virtual machine and in the HARD DISK 1 settings I have something called VIRTUAL DEVICE NODE. That's a drop down menu contains SCSI(0:0) to SCSI(3:15). By default it was SCSI (0:0). What it is and what I have to choose?
Thanks...
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| Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:38 am |
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Dave.Mishchenko
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Joined: Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:13 pm
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Re: No HDD in Virtual Machine BIOS ESX(i) support only SCSI virtual HDs at this point so when you go into the BIOS there will be no IDE drives (only the CD-ROM).
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| Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:52 am |
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Vucko
Joined: Sun Mar 22, 2009 1:32 am
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Re: No HDD in Virtual Machine BIOS Hi Dave... I found this on some other forum... Quote: You can manually change the ESX config file to provide support for IDE discs....
snippet from my running ILM-Router.vmx
Code:
#scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
#scsi0:0.name = "SAN2:ILM-Router.vmdk"
#scsi0:0.deviceType = "plainDisk"
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.deviceType = "plainDisk"
ide0:0.fileName = "/vmfs/vmhba1:0:4:1/Mikrotik.vmdk"
Is this true? And I don't know where is .vmx file from my virtual machine...
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| Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:54 am |
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Dave.Mishchenko
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Re: No HDD in Virtual Machine BIOS I'm not that's accurate and looking at the original it seems to have been done with ESX 2.5. The easiest method to get to the VMX would be via SSH - http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/ESXi_enable_SSH.php. Once you enable it and connect it will be found in /vmfs/volumes/<datastore name>/<folder>/file.vmx ESXi includes the editor VI to use (google for VI editor if you haven't used it) or you can use something like WinSCP to edit the files (it connects via SSH but it's a Windows GUI app). For the VMDK itself you would need to import it from a workstation install and then convert it with vmkfstools (but that might error out). Is there a reason you need an IDE drive?
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| Wed Apr 01, 2009 12:18 pm |
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Vucko
Joined: Sun Mar 22, 2009 1:32 am
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Re: No HDD in Virtual Machine BIOS I'm using WinSCP to SSH with my iPhone.  Thats not strange for me. Reason for IDE HDD is installation of Mikrotik as virtual machine. MT doesn't support SCSI disks and ESX doesn't support IDE... I think this is the end of the road for me. 
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Dave.Mishchenko
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Re: No HDD in Virtual Machine BIOS
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| Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:20 pm |
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Vucko
Joined: Sun Mar 22, 2009 1:32 am
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Re: No HDD in Virtual Machine BIOS That good news (for me). Is it available in beta version for testing???
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| Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:07 pm |
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Dave.Mishchenko
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Re: No HDD in Virtual Machine BIOS The beta is private but there was some blogs saying that they should release it by the end of April.
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| Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:21 pm |
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Vucko
Joined: Sun Mar 22, 2009 1:32 am
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Re: No HDD in Virtual Machine BIOS Dave, thanks for informations. It's not to much time to wait for. (if it is april-may)... I'll be watching for ESX 4.0 release...
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| Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:43 pm |
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