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Chapter 16 Connecting Devices
ThemainreasonsWorkstationcannotdetectadeviceincludethefollowing:
Adriverforthatdeviceisnotinstalledonthehost.
Adriveronthehostpreventsthedevicefrombeingdetected.
Thevirtualmachineusesadeviceforwhichtherearenodriversavailabletothe
hostoperatingsystem.Inthiscase,addthedevicemanuallytothevirtual
machine’sconfiguration(.vmx)file.Addingadeviceinthismanneris
recommendedforadvancedusersonly.
To troubleshoot problems detecting generic SCSI devices
1Findoutwhetherthedevicedriverfo
rthisdevi
ceisinstalledonthehost.
2Ifthedevicedriverisnotinstalledandyouwanttoinstallit,dosoandseeifthe
deviceappearscorrectlyinthevirtualmachinesettingseditor.
Youmightnotwanttoinstallthedriveronthehostifyouwanttoavoida
de
vice‐in‐useconflictbetweenthehostandguest.
Ifadriverisinstalledbutdoesnotappearcorrectly,ifyoucannotinstallthedriver
onthehost,orifyoudonotwanttoinstallthedriveronthehost,continuewiththe
restofthisprocedure.
3Ifanorig
inalSCSIdevicedriverisalreadyinstalledonthehost,disableit.
SomeWindowsoperatingsystemsdonotprocessthesendcommandfromthe
adapterifthedevicedriverownsthedevice.
4Poweroffthevirtualmachineandopenthevirtualmachine’sconfiguration(.vmx)
fileinatexteditor.
5Addorchang
ethefollowinglineinthe.vmx
file,whereX istheSCSIbusnumber
thedeviceusesonthehostsystem,andYisthetargetIDthedeviceusesbothin
thevirtualmachineandonthehost:
scsiZ:Y.fileName = "<deviceName>"
For"<deviceName>"use:
"scsiX:Y"
Thefollowingisanexampleofhowtosettheoption.Theproblematicdeviceisa
CD‐ROMdrive,andtheexistingentryintheconfigurationfileis:
scsi0:4.fileName = "CdRom0"
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