You ever wanted to add a hard disk to a vmware virtual machine using /dev/disk/by-path/* ?
Then you know vmware will say it can’t identify the bus type.
Do you want a QUICK workaround, which is WAY better than patching the tools using vmgbd?
Well, then just do this
~ # ln -sf /dev/disk /dev/sd
And there you go. Instead of /dev/disk/by-path/someweirdstringinhere use /dev/sd/by-path/someweirdstringinhere.
Vmware’s parser identifies the first 7 chars of the device name… “/dev/sd” 😉
Of course, remember to make the link every time the server restarts, (/etc/rc.local maybe), because udev will make it go away. Maybe there’s a better solution using udev directly (like persistent storage using sd/ instead of disk/).
But it works. And is better than patching vmware 🙂
