[ale] Linux+VMWare+Windows+Cluster ????

[Keith Hopkins]

Robert L. Harris wrote:

> 
>   Got one from the windows guys I HAVE to help with.  They want to take a
> quad proc Dell, load a stable linux on it.  Put VMWare on that, put windows
> in the VMWare and "cluster" the windows boxes.....
> 
>   I about hit the floor at this thought.
> 
>   One major snag.  The cluster software REQUIRES shared scsi attached 
> software, yeah, arguably stupid to require this to install but it does.
> The box has scsi cards and disks, but of course VMWare sees this as IDE.
> Has anyone worked with getting this to be shown as scsi for this clustering
> software? 
> 
>   I'm digging around the vmware site, but as usually, not getting too
> far with them unless I wanna file an incident.
> 
> Robert


Hi Robert,

   When you loaded Win under vmware, you should have included a BusLogic scsi driver.  This is the card that vmware emulates.  With that, you should have been able to see your scsi devices as scsi devices (and not IDE).

Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith

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