Hello !
I don't know if I've to post on this topic but I try.
So I've an ESX with Vmware 6.7.0 running.
I've installed a VM with a CentOS 7.
First, Vmware says :
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VALUE_ILLEGAL: Value ‘‘PIIX4’’ of ResourceSubType element not found in [].
VALUE_ILLEGAL: Value ‘‘PIIX4’’ of ResourceSubType element not found in [].
VALUE_ILLEGAL: Value ‘‘3’’ of Parent element does not refer to a ref of type DiskControllerReference.
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After few minutes on Google, I found that this error can be resolved by modifying the vmx file from here :
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<Item>
<rasd:Address>0</rasd:Address>
<rasd:Caption>ideController0</rasd:Caption>
<rasd:Description>IDE Controller</rasd:Description>
<rasd:ElementName>ideController0</rasd:ElementName>
<rasd:InstanceID>3</rasd:InstanceID>
<rasd:ResourceSubType>PIIX4</rasd:ResourceSubType>
<rasd:ResourceType>5</rasd:ResourceType>
</Item>
<Item>
<rasd:Address>1</rasd:Address>
<rasd:Caption>ideController1</rasd:Caption>
<rasd:Description>IDE Controller</rasd:Description>
<rasd:ElementName>ideController1</rasd:ElementName>
<rasd:InstanceID>4</rasd:InstanceID>
<rasd:ResourceSubType>PIIX4</rasd:ResourceSubType>
<rasd:ResourceType>5</rasd:ResourceType>
</Item>
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To here :
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<Item>
<rasd:Address>0</rasd:Address>
<rasd:Caption>SCSIController</rasd:Caption>
<rasd:Description>SCSI Controller</rasd:Description>
<rasd:ElementName>SCSIController</rasd:ElementName>
<rasd:InstanceID>3</rasd:InstanceID>
<rasd:ResourceSubType>lsilogic</rasd:ResourceSubType>
<rasd:ResourceType>6</rasd:ResourceType>
</Item>
<Item>
<rasd:Address>1</rasd:Address>
<rasd:Caption>SCSIController</rasd:Caption>
<rasd:Description>SCSI Controller</rasd:Description>
<rasd:ElementName>SCSIController</rasd:ElementName>
<rasd:InstanceID>4</rasd:InstanceID>
<rasd:ResourceSubType>lsilogic</rasd:ResourceSubType>
<rasd:ResourceType>6</rasd:ResourceType>
</Item>
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Yes ! The VM start ! But now is the problem...
There is a ‘dracut-initqueue timeout’… And then after that : ‘a jobstart is running for dev-mapper…..device …… no limits’
The VM is just waiting something, it’s been like 16h on this point. I can break the loop by pressing ctrl + alt + del but the VM just restart and then here we go again.
I’ve searched some details and then I’ve found that we have to enter rescue mode and give it to it a ‘dracut -f’.
Problem here again, I can’t access to rescue mode.
I’ve launch the VM, press ‘e’ to edit the file, search the ‘linux16’ line, go to the end of the line and write ‘rescue’ then ctrl + X, nothing happen, all remains the same.
Same result with ‘systemd.unit=emergency.target’ and ‘systemd.unit=rescue.target’….
It sounds to be an error only on Vmware so I try to ask here maybe someone will find :/
Best regards,
Julien.