- VMware Workstation 5.0
- Generic SCSI on a Windows Host Operating System
- Device Support
- Preparing a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 Guest Operating System to Use SCSI Devices
- Preparing a Windows NT 4.0 Guest Operating System to Use SCSI Devices
- Adding a Generic SCSI Device to a Virtual Machine
- Виртуализация vSphere, Hyper-V, Xen и Red Hat
- Более 5370 заметок о виртуализации, виртуальных машинах VMware, Microsoft и Xen, а также Kubernetes
- VMware Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) — использование в качестве загрузочых дисков виртуальных машин на VMware vSphere.
- Windows Server 2016 Install VMware Paravirtual SCSI controller
- Windows Server 2016 Install VMware Paravirtual SCSI controller
- Thoughts
VMware Workstation 5.0
Generic SCSI on a Windows Host Operating System
Using the SCSI Generic driver in Windows, VMware Workstation allows your guest operating system to operate generic SCSI devices including scanners, tape drives and other data storage devices in a virtual machine.
Note: In order to access host SCSI devices as Generic SCSI devices from within a virtual machine, you must run VMware Workstation as a user with administrator access.
Device Support
In theory, generic SCSI is completely device independent, but VMware has discovered it is sensitive to the guest operating system, device class and specific SCSI hardware. We encourage you to try any SCSI hardware you want to use and report problems to VMware technical support.
Note: If you are using generic SCSI devices in a Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows Me guest operating system and are experiencing problems with the devices, download the latest Mylex� (BusLogic) BT/KT-958 compatible host bus adapter from www.lsilogic.com. This driver overrides what Windows chooses as the best driver, but it corrects known problems.
Preparing a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 Guest Operating System to Use SCSI Devices
To use SCSI devices in a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 virtual machine, you need a special SCSI driver available from the download section of the VMware Web site www.vmware.com/download. Follow the instructions on the Web site to install the driver.
Preparing a Windows NT 4.0 Guest Operating System to Use SCSI Devices
Generic SCSI devices use the virtual Mylex (BusLogic) BT/KT-958 compatible host bus adapter provided by the virtual machine. Some guest operating systems guide you through installing the drivers after you install the first SCSI device in the virtual machine. On Windows NT 4.0, however, you may need to install the driver manually, if it is not already installed for a virtual SCSI disk. You should do so before you add a generic SCSI device.
To install the BusLogic driver in a Windows NT 4.0 guest, have your Windows NT installation CD available and follow these steps.
1. Open the SCSI Adapters control panel.
Start > Settings > Control Panel > SCSI Adapters
2. Click the Drivers tab.
4. In the list of vendors on the left, select BusLogic.
5. In the list of drivers on the right, select BusLogic MultiMaster PCI SCSI Host Adapters.
7. Insert the Windows NT CD when you are prompted. Click OK.
8. Reboot when you are prompted.
Adding a Generic SCSI Device to a Virtual Machine
You can add generic SCSI devices to your virtual machine in the virtual machine settings editor. When you set up a generic SCSI device, the virtual machine must be powered off.
1. If it is not already running, launch VMware Workstation.
Start > Programs > VMware > VMware Workstation
2. Open the virtual machine in which you want to use the generic SCSI device. Make sure the virtual machine is powered off.
3. From the VMware Workstation window, choose VM > Settings. The virtual machine settings editor opens.
4. Click Add to start the Add Hardware Wizard. Click Next.
5. Select Generic SCSI Device, then click Next.
6. Choose the name of the physical device you want to use.
Then choose the virtual device node where you want this device to appear in the virtual machine.
A check box under Device status allows you to specify whether the device should be connected each time the virtual machine is powered on.
7. Click Finish to install the new device.
8. Click OK to save the configuration and close the virtual machine settings editor.
To remove this device, launch the virtual machine settings editor, select the generic SCSI device, then click Remove.
Виртуализация vSphere, Hyper-V, Xen и Red Hat
Более 5370 заметок о виртуализации, виртуальных машинах VMware, Microsoft и Xen, а также Kubernetes
VM Guru / News / VMware Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) — использование в качестве загрузочых дисков виртуальных машин на VMware vSphere. |
Вебинары VMC о виртуализации: Постер VMware vSphere PowerCLI 6.3: Постер VMware ESXi 5.1: Постер VMware Hands-on Labs 2015: Постер VMware Platform Services Controller 6.0: Постер VMware vCloud Networking: Постер VMware NSX (референсный): Постер VMware vCloud SDK: Постер VMware vCloud Suite: Постер VMware vCenter Server Appliance: Порты и соединения VMware vSphere 6: Порты и соединения VMware Horizon 7: Порты и соединения VMware NSX: Управление памятью в VMware vSphere 5: Как работает кластер VMware High Availability: Постер VMware vSphere 5.5 ESXTOP (обзорный): Постер Veeam Backup & Replication v8 for VMware: Постер Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V R2: Windows Server 2016 Install VMware Paravirtual SCSI controllerFor best disk performance with virtual machines, it is advisable to use the VMware Paravirtual SCSI controller for the virtual disks. However, if you try to install Windows Server 2016 with the VMware Paravirtual SCSI adapter on a clean OS install, it will not see any disks to install to. Let’s take at a way with Windows Server 2016 Install VMware Paravirtual SCSI controller. Windows Server 2016 Install VMware Paravirtual SCSI controllerIf you simply try to install Windows Server 2016 in a VM with the VMware Paravirtual SCSI controller behind the hard disk you are booting from, Windows will not see any drives available for the install. However, we can click the Load Driver link to browse to the driver we need to install. We can get the driver from the VMware tools ISO image. A simple way to have access to both your Operating system install and VMware tools is to mount an additional CD/DVD drive to the VM. Make sure both are connected (had already disconnected the second drive when I captured the below screen clip). For the second hard drive we want to mount the windows.iso image which will allow us to install the VMware Paravirtual SCSI controller. Now, we can browse to the driver files we need. We drill down to VMware Tools >> Program Files >> VMware >> VMware Tools >> Drivers >> pvscsi >> amd64. Notice how the VMware PVSCSI Controller is found as a compatible driver for our hardware. After the driver is installed, Voila! We now have hard drives appear to install Windows. ThoughtsWith Windows Server 2016 Install VMware Paravirtual SCSI controller requires that we browse to the driver files located on the VMware tools ISO. As I show above, a simple way to do this without much effort is to add a second CD/DVD drive to the VM and then mount the VMware tools ISO to this drive. After that, we can browse to the driver files the operating system needs to install the PVSCSI controller. |