Why VMware Workstation tells me the partition tables is not correct?

[virtualizatio31]

I have a 4T physical disk and I plan to attached it (the whole disk, not a partition) to a RHEL 8 guest VM. But whenever I try it, I got this error:

But the disk works well in my Windows host system. It's using MBR, so it has been automatically splitted into two partitions.

If I make it online and format them, I can copy files to them without any issues. Why VMware Workstation tells me the partition tables is not correct? Thanks.

[continuum]

A 4 TB disk that is not using GPT instead of MBR would be regarded as invalid by any tool.
The fact that Windows allows to use the first 2 TB does not change this at all.
More important: it makes zero sense to insist on using MBR for such a disk.
Rebuild the partitiontable to GPT and forget about it.

Ulli

[ender_]

Try running VMWare Workstation as Administrator, it appears that the VMWare UI process is trying to read the raw disk, which fails when not running elevated.