Windows 7 Guest in Workstation 7 final - disk driver not found?

[docsmooth]

I have a new Ubuntu 9.10 x64 (Intel) host with 64-bit VMWare workstation installed. I can boot the Windows 7 64-bit ISO (Enterprise Final volume license), and load the installer, but it fails to find any disk (or perhaps CD? which makes less sense) drivers, for either the LSI Logic or LSI Logic (SAS) adapters. Both the Easy Installer and non-easy installer methods give me the same problem. The Win7 ISO just fails to find any disks. Has anyone seen the same problem? Know where I might find the driver from, or do I need to change the SCSI controller in the VMX to something?

I've been searching the forums and blogs for a few days for "win7 vmware workstation 7" "windows 7 workstation driver" and similar combinations with no luck.

Thanks in advance,

Rob A

Deployments PM: www.likewise.com

Co-Owner: www.totalnetsolutions.net

[Liz]

Odd - while Im not installing on an ubuntu host, my win7 went through without issue - although my easy install didnt work as my disk was grubby a wipe down and it went through on manual as I tried to work out what was wrong with it.

[continuum]

this has been reported regularly in the last weeks .... but there does not seem to be a "this is it" solution

check if the downloaded iso-file is good - compare checksums

check guestOS-setting ...

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[docsmooth]

I should have mentioned - I burned that exact ISO to a DVD to build up the Win7 partition on my host (dual-boot host), so I am 100% positive the ISO is good.

not using the "easy-install" causes the same problem, whether I simply disconnect the floppy, or if I build a whole new VM and choose to not use easy install.

I didn't even see the previous complaints about the problems in my searching. 😕 Not sure what logs to even look at in this case. On real hardware, I'd recheck the HCL and start replacing hardware where neccessary.

Rob A

Deployments PM: www.likewise.com

Co-Owner: www.totalnetsolutions.net

[bmn13]

Man ... i'm so happy to see this thread ...

I have exactly the same problem.

I'm under ubuntu 9.10 x86 trying to install Win7 under vmwareworkstation 7

[docsmooth]

I still haven't actually solved this problem. I've worked around it by

installing 32-bit Win7, but 64-bit Win7 still can't find CDROM drivers.

I've put fixing it on hold for now, with the 32-bit workaround. Bmn13 -

are you trying 64-bit as well? Tried 32?

[bmn13]

My problem is with 32bits win7 ...

but as I understand the error message, it's the hard disk driver that cause the problem, no the cdrom driver, otherwise we wouldn't be able to boot on the cd ...

i've tryied to give manually the driver from the vmware tools cd, no success

[bmn13]

continuum, you said you've seen stuff like that before, could you suggest anything to try ?

I'd be happy to try anything to solve this issue.

Let me know if you need more info about my config

[continuum]

as already mentioned - most of the times the iso was bad.

Other than that - experiment with different guestOS settings.

here it works with "longhorn-64"




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[bmn13]

I'm 100% sure that my iso is good, i've used it in many other places, both physical and VM.

Same iso on latest sun virtualbox is working fine for ex.

must be something else ... I wish we have more stuff to try 😕

[continuum]

what guestOS = ? did you set




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[bmn13]

Well, when I gave the path to the .iso, it detected automatically windows 7, so I left it like that ...

[continuum]

so you use easy install ?

does the same happen with a standard installation ?




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[bmn13]

yes same problem with or without easy install 😕

in the standard install, I get the same error as the screenshot of the first post

on the easy install, I get a similar error saying the same but looks different as the step are not alike

Would it help if I make some research in the log file ? dunno what so search but you could tell me ?

[continuum]

try standard install with

guestOS = "longhorn-64"




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[bmn13]

I had a warning saying that i can't run 64bits on my system

Same problem 😕

tried also with guestOS = "longhorn", same problem 😕

[bmn13]

I'm still trying to understand this, and make more tests ....

I can imagine win7 don't have the driver for the latest version of the vmware scsi layer,but it still does not work when I install the driver from the vmware tools ... there's no logic

I'll try with IDE instead of SCSCI, just to try to isolate the problem

[continuum]

with Win7 use LSIlogic or LSI-SAS




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[bmn13]

No problem with IDE !

So it was a problem with the SCSI layer ...

Good to know, but is it a bug that can be corrected in the next version ?

Is there a performance issue between the 2, or any reason to not use IDE ?

Thanks

BMI,

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[tapio61]

Hi,

is there any progress on this issue yet? I have spent several days trying to install 64bit Windows 7 on Vmware version 7. Allthough the host has been installed from the same image without problems, Vmware keeps telling that the drivers for the CD/DVD-ROM drive are not present, no matter which combination of settings I try to use. I even tried to replace the IDE CD-drive with a SATA drive (as some game forum claimed that a Win 7 x64 computer does not accept mixed IDE/SATA devices), but with no success.