System is CentOS 5.3 64 bit running on a quad core AMD phenom with 8gb of ram. There are 4 1TB hitachi sata disks installed in the system, visible as /dev/sda sdb sdc and sdd. sda and sdb are beaing used as a raid-1 pair for the Centos Host install and for .vmdk files.
I want to map either /dev/sdc or /dev/sdd to a vm through the scsi passthrough adapter. Scsi passthrough lists available devices as /dev/sg0|1|2|3. Assuming that /dev/sg2 maps to /dev/sdc and /dev/sg3 maps to /dev/sdd if I try to specify either of these sg(2|3) devices for the scsi passthrough, a guest OS installation within the VM does not see any disk associated with the VM.
Interestingly, when I specifiy either /dev/sg0 or /dev/sg1 as my scsi passthrough device, the VM begins to boot my Host installation of CentOS5.3 which I quickly stop to ensure no corruption of my Host OS. So teh scsi passthru seems to work fopr an already installed OS disk.
Just downloaded and installed vmware-server 2.0.1.
What the heck happened to the old RDM capability within vmware-server 1.x?
TIA
