Cannot connect to virtual device ide0:1 - No corresponding device is avail

[KeatonAdams]

I'm converting from a Windows XP SP2 machine to a new Mac Mini (Intel Core 2 Duo).

I downloaded and ran VMware Converter 3.0.1 on my Windows XP machine to convert the physical volumes to a virtual machine. That part worked just fine.

I installed the new VMware Fusion product on my Mac Mini. Using an external USB drive I copied the Win XP virtual machine to my Mac's hard drive. I started fusion and opened the Windows XP virtual machine and when it attempts to start I get the error:

"Cannot connect virtual device ide 0:1. No corresponding device is available on this host."

Both of my virtual hard drives (which were IDE drives on the Windows XP machine) show up in the virtual machine settings with a Bus type of SCSI, and the drop-down option to change it to IDE is unavailable. I can add another hard disk to the virtual machine of type IDE or SCSI, but why doesn't VMware Fusion default to a bus type of IDE for my IDE drives that came from my Windows XP machine?

The overall process was recommended on the VMware site as an easy way to migrate from Windows to Mac, but I can't seem to get past this issue.

Thanks,

Keaton

[admin]

Post the vmx?

[KeatonAdams]

Here it is:

config.version = "8"

virtualHW.version = "4"

memsize = "288"

MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"

MemTrimRate = "-1"

displayName = "WindowsPC"

guestOS = "winXPPro"

tools.remindInstall = "TRUE"

floppy0.present = "TRUE"

floppy0.fileName = "A:"

sound.present = "TRUE"

sound.virtualDev = "sb16"

sound.filename = "-1"

sound.autodetect = "TRUE"

usb.present = "TRUE"

ethernet0.present = "TRUE"

ethernet0.addressType = "generated"

ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"

ethernet1.present = "TRUE"

ethernet1.addressType = "generated"

ethernet1.connectionType = "nat"

scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"

scsi0:0.fileName = "WindowsPC.vmdk"

scsi0:1.present = "TRUE"

scsi0:1.fileName = "WindowsPC (2).vmdk"

ide0:0.present = "TRUE"

ide0:0.autodetect = "TRUE"

ide0:0.filename = "auto detect"

ide0:0.deviceType = "atapi-cdrom"

ide0:1.present = "TRUE"

ide0:1.autodetect = "TRUE"

ide0:1.filename = "auto detect"

ide0:1.deviceType = "atapi-cdrom"

scsi0.present = "TRUE"

scsi0.virtualDev = "buslogic"

buslogic.noDriver = "FALSE"

My process has been:

1. Create a VMWare file set with VMWare converter to an external USB drive

2. Connect the USB drive to the Mac Mini.

3. Copy the VMWare files to the local Mac disk drive.

4. Run VMWare fusion and do File -> Open

5. Select the VMX file and open it.

VMWare starts and I get the message, "Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk......"

Am I not doing this right?

-Keaton

[admin]

Did you try creating a new Virtual machine and under advanced disk options chose (use an existing virtual disk) and point it to the vmdk you copied over.