Comments on: Installing and using pvscsi in Red Hat and CentOS 5.3 under vSphere 4 http://vmadmin.nt.com.au/?p=28 Useful Stuff we find interesting ...so should you! Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:35:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Sven Lankes http://vmadmin.nt.com.au/?p=28&cpage=1#comment-621 Sven Lankes Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:35:31 +0000 http://vmadmin.nt.com.au/?p=28#comment-621 Type your comment here<blockquote cite="#comment-body-127"> <strong><a href="#comment-127" rel="nofollow">Chris Lukas</a> :</strong> the real question is how to make the new boot controller permanently added to initrd… <a></a> </blockquote> Creating a file /etc/sysconfig/mkinitrd/vmware with: MODULES="pvscsi" should do the trick. Type your comment here
Chris Lukas :
the real question is how to make the new boot controller permanently added to initrd…

Creating a file /etc/sysconfig/mkinitrd/vmware with:

MODULES=”pvscsi”

should do the trick.

]]> By: Installing RHEL 5 using the VMware Paravirtualized SCSI driver (pvscsi) | Tork Wrench http://vmadmin.nt.com.au/?p=28&cpage=1#comment-619 Installing RHEL 5 using the VMware Paravirtualized SCSI driver (pvscsi) | Tork Wrench Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:26:29 +0000 http://vmadmin.nt.com.au/?p=28#comment-619 [...] Redhat’s excellent kickstart system. If you are just interested in doing this on one system, I would follow these steps instead . My steps are good if you want to automate this procedure over many machines, but it probably [...] [...] Redhat’s excellent kickstart system. If you are just interested in doing this on one system, I would follow these steps instead . My steps are good if you want to automate this procedure over many machines, but it probably [...]

]]> By: Chris Lukas http://vmadmin.nt.com.au/?p=28&cpage=1#comment-127 Chris Lukas Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:07:16 +0000 http://vmadmin.nt.com.au/?p=28#comment-127 the real question is how to make the new boot controller permanently added to initrd... the real question is how to make the new boot controller permanently added to initrd…

]]> By: Chris Lukas http://vmadmin.nt.com.au/?p=28&cpage=1#comment-126 Chris Lukas Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:10:19 +0000 http://vmadmin.nt.com.au/?p=28#comment-126 great tip....tried it on CentOS 4.7, worked great. it boils down to: 1) install the VMware tools 2) mkinitrd -f --with=pvscsi (rest of line from your tip) (-f forces overwrite) 3) shutdown, change the boot adapter type in VMware 4) boot, if you get a re-config screen, remove the old hardware great tip….tried it on CentOS 4.7, worked great.
it boils down to:
1) install the VMware tools
2) mkinitrd -f –with=pvscsi (rest of line from your tip)
(-f forces overwrite)
3) shutdown, change the boot adapter type in VMware
4) boot, if you get a re-config screen, remove the old hardware

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