Migration VMware VMS to OpenStack KVM modifies vmware Windows SCSI to IDE

How to convert a virtual SCSI disk used by VMware Workstation to a virtual IDE hard disk (2013-03-28 09:11:32) reproduced

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Some special software limitations can only be run on the IDE hard disk. If you want to use the software in a virtual machine (using a virtual SCSI disk) and do not want to recreate a virtual machine, you can use the following method to convert the virtual SCSI disk into a virtual IDE hard disk.

Note 1: It is recommended to read the full text before you start, do not look at the side to do so as to avoid tragedies.

Note 2: As a result of the modification of the virtual disk in this article, all the consequences are not related to me. J

1. Close the virtual machine that you want to modify.
2. Delete all snapshots of this virtual machine.
3. Optionally, if the virtual disk you want to convert is a single file, you can refer to this KB to convert it to a 2 GB segmented file.
4. Open the virtual machine Settings interface and remember the file name of this vdisk, such as Windows XP Professional (3) -0.VMDK, which will be used in a moment.

1. Select the virtual machine, click [Remove]

2. In the local file system, locate the virtual disk file that is logged in the 4th step of Windows XP Professional (3) -0.vmdk. Open with a text editor. Find Ddb.adaptertype = "BusLogic" line. Replace "BusLogic" with "IDE". Save exit.

1. In the Virtual machine Settings interface, add a new hard disk. On the Select a Disk page, select Use an existing virtual disk.

1. Check the 6th step of the modified file in Windows XP Professional (3) -0.VMDK and confirm.

1. As you can see in virtual machine settings, this SCSI disk has become an IDE disk.

It is important to note that if the disk you are changing is the virtual machine operating system disk, and the virtual machine contains multiple virtual disks, deleting the disks and adding them will cause the disk order to change. For example, the new disk is deleted before it is new disk 3. In this scenario, the virtual machine will not start correctly. The order of the virtual disks before and after the change must be guaranteed (new disk, new Disk 1, new disk 2, etc) unchanged.

Migration VMware VMS to OpenStack KVM modifies vmware Windows SCSI to IDE