There seems to be a dependency that's keeping it from working for me.I don't have the ISO image file D:\Images\ubuntu-7.10-server-i386.iso, so it's spending a lot of time trying to scan the scsi bus to find it... (which it never will).

Is there some way to start it without that file?

Apparently, it's not the missing CD-ROM, there's something deeper at fault here. I gave it a different Ubuntu ISO to try to use, and it still did the same thing... looking through EVERY SCSI device/ID/HOST trying to find something... at 10 seconds per iteration. I assume it would eventually give up after an hour or two... but that makes it unusable with a boot time that long.

I hope it's a simple fix.

there are a lot of lines like

sd 2:0:1:5: rejecting I/O to offline device

it was still doing this after 415 seconds.

Oh... and here's the VMware log as well

check out this message: http://communities.vmware.com/message/838841#838841

I removed/re-added the disk... no go...

the last few lines are like this:

http:// timestamp.milliseconds sd 2:0:15:6 rejecting I/O to offline device

http:// timestamp.milliseconds sd 2:0:15:6 rejecting I/O to offline device

http:// timestamp.milliseconds sd 2:0:15:6 rejecting I/O to offline device

http:// timestamp.milliseconds sd 2:0:15:6 rejecting I/O to offline device

http:// timestamp.milliseconds sd 2:0:15:6 rejecting I/O to offline device

http:// timestamp.milliseconds sd 2:0:15:6 rejecting I/O to offline device

http:// timestamp.milliseconds sd 2:0:15:6 sddh Asking for cache data failed

http:// timestamp.milliseconds sd 2:0:15:6 sddh Assuming drive cache: write through

http:// timestamp.milliseconds sd 2:0:15:7 rejecting I/O to offline device

http:// timestamp.milliseconds sd 2:0:15:7 rejecting I/O to offline device

http:// timestamp.milliseconds sd 2:0:15:7 rejecting I/O to offline device

http:// timestamp.milliseconds sd 2:0:15:7 rejecting I/O to offline device

http:// timestamp.milliseconds sd 2:0:15:7 rejecting I/O to offline device

http:// timestamp.milliseconds sd 2:0:15:7 rejecting I/O to offline device

http:// timestamp.milliseconds sd 2:0:15:7 sddh Asking for cache data failed

http:// timestamp.milliseconds sd 2:0:15:7 sddh Assuming drive cache: write through

(initframfs)

Sorry I couldn't figure it out either.

apt-get install linux-image

apt-get purge virtual*

and change the root=UUID=... bit in /boot/grub/menu.lst to read root=/dev/sda1 and things should work.

if you set the scsi driver to lsilogic and start the appliance in vmware server after that there's a good chance it will work. i'll try to build one in the near future (and do some specific cleanup up to keep the size down a bit) but you'll have to be patient.