Windows 2003 Bus Logic SCSI Driver - Error Message

[prasadmenon]

Hi,

I am using ESX 4.1 and created a W3K3-32bit VM with BusLogic SCSI driver. When I tried to installed Windows 2003, it initially did not detect the hard disk. So I installed vmscsi.1.2.0.4.flp driver which helped in detecting hard disk and installation was successful. Everything is working fine now, but now everytime I power-on the VM, it always display the following error message in “Events” tab. I am not sure if this error message is just a message or something critical.  My test specifically need BusLogic SCSI driver, so I cannot change to LSILogic driver.

Message from esxserver1.bluearc-qa.calsoftinc.com: The guest operating system is Windows Server 2003 and one or more virtual SCSI devices are installed in the virtual machine. Windows Server 2003 does not support the BusLogic SCSI adapter that VMware ESX currently uses for virtual SCSI devices. Install the VMware driver in the virtual machine. Download the driver from "http://vmware.com/info?id=43". Click OK to continue or Cancel to cancel.

Also just to check, what should be SCSI Driver name in “Device Manager”. I have attached a screenshot which is showing “VMWare SCSI Controller”. I mean to ask should it be “BusLogic SCSI Controller” or this is correct?

In vmx, it is not showing any entry for scsi0.virtualDev i.e. neither LSILogic nor BusLogic.  Infact "scsi0.virtualDev" is completely missing.

Any help is highly appreciated. And apologies for putting this message earlier in VMWare Workstation group.

Regards

Prasad

[ChrisDearden]

Why not recreate the VM with an LSI logic driver ?

[prasadmenon]

Hi Chris Dearden,

Actually this is part of my test requirement. I need to have bunch of VMs with different SCSI controllers and one of them should be BUSLogic.

Thanks

Prasad

[ChrisDearden]

Fair enough though I'd question the requirement in the first place - assume it is for some form of QA testing where you have to mitigate even the most confounding of Virtual Machine configuration ?

I asume you've not had any luck updating the drivers in the guest beyond the ones in the FLp image ?

[prasadmenon]

Yes this is for QA testing.

Are there any other drivers to be updated apart from flp?