I was testing a 2007.1 x86 minimal CD I built in vmware, and I noticed it was behaving a bit oddly. It was scanning every ID on the virtual buslogic scsi controller and assigning a dev node, even though it didn't detect a drive. It had up to /dev/sdo assigned by the time it finished scanning. This *is* an upstream issue, as the Ubuntu livecd gets up to /dev/sddi (it scans all LUNs on each ID) before I killed it. I'm attaching the dmesg from the minimal CD. Also, here's a list of the dev nodes that were created: livecd ~ # ls -l /dev/sd? brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Nov 6 16:01 /dev/sda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 Nov 6 16:00 /dev/sdb brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 32 Nov 6 16:01 /dev/sdc brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 48 Nov 6 16:01 /dev/sdd brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 64 Nov 6 16:01 /dev/sde brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 80 Nov 6 16:01 /dev/sdf brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 96 Nov 6 16:02 /dev/sdg brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 112 Nov 6 16:01 /dev/sdh brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 128 Nov 6 16:02 /dev/sdi brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 144 Nov 6 16:02 /dev/sdj brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 160 Nov 6 16:02 /dev/sdk brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 176 Nov 6 16:02 /dev/sdl brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 192 Nov 6 16:02 /dev/sdm brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 208 Nov 6 16:02 /dev/sdn brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 224 Nov 6 16:02 /dev/sdo
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Is this still an issue? Has any testing begun with a 2008.0 x86 minimal CD built in vmware, yet?
This is still an issue with 2.6.23-gentoo-r8 in app-emulation/vmware-server-1.0.4.56528
Smells like a vmware bug -- apparently this is a regression in 1.0.4 over 1.0.3 http://communities.vmware.com/message/757780 There's no evidence to suggest that this is a linux driver bug, but I sent a mail upstream anyway: http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=120570006318199&w=2 I'd suggest you contact vmware about this problem too. Can't do much more than that, sorry. The vmware forums suggest that changing to the LSI driver will solve the problem.
