Yes, I had problems with scsi virtual devices on both netbsd-1.6 and 
netbsd-1.6.1 running in vmware-4.0.1 hosted on redhat-9.  I haven't 
tried 4.0.2.  And a co-worker had no trouble with the same general 
configuration hosted on XP.

So only a little variance.

--rich

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