Hard disks as SCSI

[marmaraba]

Hello all.

I'm using Vmware server in Ubuntu Hardy Heron, its a bit dificult to install but finaly I got it.

My problem is the following. When I connect a phisical HDD (or partitions of a phisical HDD) to any VM it appears connected in a SCSI interface. I want to connect it on IDE (as the CDROM drive) and I can't find the way to do that.

Can someone help me?

Thanks a lot.

P.D.: Excuse me for my english leveel, I'm spanish...

[M3rlin]

Hi,

no problem, my english is also not the best because its not my native language.

I think the problem is that you connect the physical drive or partition with direct write access to the vm. There it could be that vmware server can only connect them as an SCSI drive. But it is still an IDE Drive its only in vmware SCSI for better performance.

But why do you give the vm direct access to the hard drive ?
You can also create a new virtual disk for that vm. so you can allocate disk space to the new "hard drive" for the vm.
There you have the advantage that you can easily move them and you can choose IDE for it.