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