CentOS - Aug 2007 - virtual hdd problems when CentOS is guest OS

I recently installed VMware on CentOS 4.4 (using the single server
CD).  I installed VMware fine, and then installed the VMware-mui tools
that allow me to use a Windows box to console to the server. From my
Windows box, I can create VMs on the fly just fine.

Interestingly, I can create virtual Debian boxes ok, but I can't
create virtual CentOS boxes. What might I be missing?  As soon as I
boot to the iso, it says something about not being able to find the
drive.

(I didn't have this problem with CentOS when Windows was my host OS,
only when CentOS is the host OS)

On 8/1/07, Rogelio Bastardo <scubacuda at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Interestingly, I can create virtual Debian boxes ok, but I can't
> create virtual CentOS boxes. What might I be missing?  As soon as I
> boot to the iso, it says something about not being able to find the
> drive.
Interestingly, the way I "fixed" this was to just use recreate this
with Red Hat 4 as the template.

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Rogelio Bastardo wrote:
> Interestingly, I can create virtual Debian boxes ok, but I can't
> create virtual CentOS boxes. What might I be missing?  As soon as I
> boot to the iso, it says something about not being able to find the
> drive.
>
> (I didn't have this problem with CentOS when Windows was my host OS,
> only when CentOS is the host OS)
I've seen this issue myself on a seemingly random basis.  Flip the drive
to an ide rather than a scsi one and see if it works.

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