Scientififc Linux guest does not see a hard disk space using VMWare Player on Win7

rich100 · 01-24-2015, 03:39 AM

Hi,

I am trying to install a Scientific Linux 7 virtual machine on my Windows 7 64bit guest machine.

However just before the installation of Scientific Linux on the hard disk it asks me to choose which disk space to use but none is listed under local drives.

I have set up my virtual machine settings based on a RedHat Linux OS and allocated 50GB of hard disk space.

Can somebody help me to solve this?

Regards,

Richard

dijetlo · 01-24-2015, 09:39 AM

I think you mean you want to install your SL7 guest on a Window host?
What virtualization platform are you using?

rich100 · 01-24-2015, 03:29 PM

Hi,

Yes you are correct.

I am using VMWare Player (the free vm tool).

Richard

dijetlo · 01-24-2015, 03:45 PM

Richard, by the ancient code of Liunuxquestions, I am precluded from diagnosing windows related issues, however if you were to be awaken tomorrow to find that VMware has created a version of their product for linux and if you chose to try that product and if that product had the same issue...
It would be because you didn't enable "write through" or "folder based storage" in the configuration (probably).
Check your prefernces or settings in your vm build

jefro · 01-26-2015, 04:57 PM

I'm a big fan of a user installing and testing and running linux on a vm. Especially in windows.

So, in your vm you have a scsi or ide drive attached to the client vm, correct?

Might just delete that vm and create a new one. Be sure you notice where locations of the virtual hard drive is and that your user has access to that. Should be in the user area.

I'd have to boot up vmplayer to double check. SL7 should work fine.

rich100 · 01-27-2015, 04:38 AM

Hi jefro,

I have a scsi hard drive attached. I've deleted that vm and went through the 'create a new vm' dialogue boxes a number of times. But this didn't work.

I noticed that the hard drive created by the 'create a new vm' wizard didn't give me the chance to create a 'pre-allocated' hard drive (i.e. one that doesn't grow from a small size up to your max limit). I converted the hard drive created from the wizard to the pre-allocated type by using the vmware-vdiskmanager tool that they ship with their SDK but SL7 still could not see this hard drive either.

I am still interested in solving this, so if you have any ideas that would be awesome.

Richard

jefro · 01-27-2015, 09:37 PM

Edit, think I know the deal now.

http://scientificlinuxforum.org/inde...showtopic=1648

Not sure you really need to pre-allocate it. Been a while since that is an issue. The various vm hard drives seem to be OK on newish machines.

I guess you could try a simple netinstall iso of centos 7 to double check. If we assume your iso is good, it should normally work on a vm. For fun I guess you could make an older style drive attached and see if it will load.

Others should have seen this. SL web may have clues as to if drivers are in it for vm. I feel pretty positive I've use sl in vmplayer before. It's very common.

Could double check your vm using a different iso and only that change.

Can look around too for other pre-made vm's. https://stacklet.com/downloads/VMWar...tweight-x86_64

Ztcoracat · 01-27-2015, 10:57 PM

If it helps I'm running Virtual Box on my CentOS machine and my guest (Mageia) runs great.
However; I didn't install to the HDD I just allocated enough to RAM for VBox.

If your still having trouble the manual might help. Try in the Troubleshooting section.
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/server_vm_manual.pdf