Comments on: Howto Convert Vmware Windows XP IDE Disk to LSILogic SCSI

By: Jack Wilson Jr

Jack Wilson Jr — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:24:12 +0000

Thanks for very informative post. May the Force be with you

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 16 May 2009 10:59:00 +0000

any text editor will do (vim/notepad whatever)

By: Seth

Seth — Sat, 16 May 2009 10:51:28 +0000

What editor software do you use to modify VMDK? Thanks

By: Keva Ellingsen

Keva Ellingsen — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:51:34 +0000

You are a very smart person!

By: Sridharaya

Sridharaya — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:52:21 +0000

thanks !! very helpful post!

By: Meandering thoughts » Blog Archive » Converting vmware disks from IDE to SCSI

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:12:33 +0000

[...] First, credit where credit is due. I gathered all my information from http://hamed.dk/home/53-vm-ide2scsi and http://blog.creonfx.com/linux/howto-convert-vmware-windows-xp-ide-disk-to-lsilogic-scsi. [...]

By: Meandering thoughts » Blog Archive » Creating floppy boot disks under VMWare

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:43:17 +0000

[...] http://hamed.dk/home/53-vm-ide2scsi and http://blog.creonfx.com/linux/howto-convert-vmware-windows-xp-ide-disk-to-lsilogic-scsi. [...]

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:06:37 +0000

After changing it to scsi you probably have to modify your GRUB/LILO, fstab and everywhere it was /dev/hda1 (for example) to /dev/sda1

By: Effie

Effie — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:35:16 +0000

thanks for a complete procedure. I’ve managed to get this to work when the guest is XP. However, with linux (fedora) as guest, I’m still getting kernel panics. Can you help?