I remember to have read recentily that there was problems with SCSI and 
VMware under NetBSD
when the SCSI driver does probes in the SCSI bus. It was going to be 
resolved in the current release.
It may be that these changes are done in current.

Alistair Crooks wrote:

>That's not my experience with VMware running on an XP host with a
>NetBSD 1.6T VMware guest:
>
>Taken from the dmesg:
>
>isapnp0: no ISA Plug 'n Play devices found
>Kernelized RAIDframe activated
>scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
>sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <VMware,, VMware Virtual S, 1.0> disk fixed
>sd0: mode sense (4) returned nonsense; using fictitious geometry
>sd0: 1024 MB, 1024 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 2097152 sectors
>sd0: async, 8-bit transfers, tagged queueing
>
>And yes, the mode sense does return nonsense, but the bha emulation
>works.  Obviously, your mileage has varied.
>
>Regards,
>Alistair
>
>
>On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:45:35AM -0700, K. Richard Pixley wrote:
>  
>
>>I run netbsd-1.6.1 inside vmware on a regular basis.
>>
>>SCSI virtual disks don't work.  Seems the scsi driver resets frequently 
>>causing vmware to believe it's broken.  Use IDE disks and be sure to put 
>>your cdrom on a different IDE bus from your hard disk, otherwise netbsd 
>>doesn't see the hard disk.
>>
>>I haven't tried running vmware on netbsd-1.6.1, but I have heard other 
>>folks discussing doing so with linux emulation.  I can't tell you how 
>>well it works.
>>
>>--rich
>>
>>Klaus Haeberlein wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Has anybody VMware been installed / ported in NetBSD 1.6?
>>>What is the experience?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>Klaus
>>>      
>>>
>
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