The installation of Oracle 11.2 rac on vmware workstation 7 is very painful. Record the configuration of the Virtual Machine file:
. Encoding = "GBK"
Scsi1.sharedBus = "virtual"
Disk. locking = "FALSE"
DiskLib. dataCacheMaxSize = "0"
DiskLib. datachemaxreadaheadsize = "0"
DiskLib. DataCacheMinReadAheadSize = "0"
DiskLib. dataCachePageSize = "4096"
DiskLib. maxUnsyncedWrites = "0"
Config. version = "8"
VirtualHW. version = "7"
Scsi0.present = "TRUE"
Scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
Memsize = "2048"
Scsi0: 0. present = "TRUE"
Scsi0: 0. fileName = "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5-000001.vmdk"
Ide1: 0. present = "TRUE"
Ide1: 0. fileName = ""
Ide1: 0. deviceType = "cdrom-image"
Ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
Ethernet0.connectionType = "bridged"
Ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
Usb. present = "TRUE"
Ehci. present = "TRUE"
Mks. enable3d = "TRUE"
PciBridge0.present = "TRUE"
PciBridge4.present = "TRUE"
PciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
PciBridge4.functions = "8"
PciBridge5.present = "TRUE"
PciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
PciBridge5.functions = "8"
PciBridge6.present = "TRUE"
PciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
PciBridge6.functions = "8"
PciBridge7.present = "TRUE"
PciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
PciBridge7.functions = "8"
Vmci0.present = "TRUE"
RoamingVM. exitBehavior = "go"
DisplayName = "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5"
GuestOS = "rhel5"
Nvram = "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. nvram"
VirtualHW. productCompatibility = "hosted"
Ft. secondary0.enabled = "TRUE"
Tools. upgrade. policy = "useGlobal"
ExtendedConfigFile = "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. vmxf"
Ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
Uuid. location = "56 4d bb 5c bb 37 d1 60-71 bb 3c 54 4d 84 77 1d"
Uuid. bios = "56 4d bb 5c bb 37 d1 60-71 bb 3c 54 4d 84 77 1d"
Scsi0: 0. redo = ""
Vmotion. checkpointFBSize = "134217728"
PciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"
PciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21"
PciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22"
PciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23"
PciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24"
Scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "16"
Usb. pciSlotNumber = "32"
Ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "33"
Ehci. pciSlotNumber = "35"
Vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "36"
Ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00: 0c: 29: 84: 77: 1d"
Ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
Vmci0.id = "-391979881"
Ethernet1.present = "TRUE"
Ethernet1.connectionType = "bridged"
Ethernet1.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
Ethernet1.addressType = "generated"
Tools. syncTime = "TRUE"
Ethernet1.pciSlotNumber = "34"
Ethernet1.generatedAddress = "00: 0c: 29: 84: 77: 27"
Ethernet1.generatedAddressOffset = "10"
Scsi1.present = "TRUE"
Scsi1.shareBus = "VIRTUAL"
Scsi1.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
Scsi1.pciSlotNumber = "37"
Ide1: 0. startConnected = "FALSE"
CleanShutdown = "FALSE"
Replay. supported = "TRUE"
Replay. filename = ""
Tools. remindInstall = "FALSE"
Ide1: 0. autodetect = "TRUE"
Unity. wasCapable = "TRUE"
Checkpoint. vmState = ""
DebugStub. linuxOffsets = "0x0, 0 xffffffff, 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0 0x0 0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0 0 0x0 0x0 0 0 0x0 0"
Scsi1: 0. present = "TRUE"
Scsi1: 1. present = "TRUE"
Scsi1: 0. fileName = "I: \ vm \ rac \ sharedisk \ ocr"
Scsi1: 0. mode = "independent-persistent"
Scsi1: 0. deviceType = "disk"
Scsi1: 1. deviceType = "disk"
Scsi1: 1. fileName = "I: \ vm \ rac \ sharedisk \ asm1"
Scsi1: 1. mode = "independent-persistent"
Scsi1: 0. redo = ""
Scsi1: 1. redo = ""
Ethernet0.linkStatePropagation. enable = "TRUE"
Ethernet1.linkStatePropagation. enable = "TRUE"
Usb: 1. present = "TRUE"
Usb: 1. deviceType = "hub"
Scsi0: 1. present = "FALSE"
Scsi0: 2. present = "FALSE"
Scsi1: 2. present = "FALSE"
Scsi1: 3. present = "FALSE"
Scsi1: 4. present = "FALSE"
Scsi1: 5. present = "FALSE"
Scsi1: 6. present = "FALSE"
Ide0: 0. present = "FALSE"
Sound. present = "FALSE"
Floppy0.present = "FALSE"