vmware to take control scsi drive

ufmale · 06-03-2008, 10:23 PM

I install a vmware server on old Linux machine, where there is a scsi drive with ext3 filesystem connected. This Linux does not have a driver and cannot see the drive.

If i have a Fedora VM running on that this host. This Fedora has the driver and can detect the drive when running as a non VM. Is there a way that this Fedora VM can access the scsi drive if the host cannot detect the drive?

nolinuxnollife · 06-04-2008, 12:59 AM

100 % No. This is because , a GUEST OS in VMWARE can only detect the HW that is already detected by HOST OS only(paravirtualisation).

Plz correct me if I am wrong

mahen

ufmale · 06-04-2008, 02:28 PM

what if the Host can detect the drives, for example as sdc and sdd.
How vm access this drives?