> Hi Lew,
> i am trying the same thing and am stuck on the part of finding the SCSI drive 
> to install. Can you help in getting me going ? since you have gone far ahead !


http://community.qnx.com/sf/discussion/do/listPosts/projects.vmware/discussion.general.topc2030

Sorry for the delay, I don't follow this forum too often.

I eventually found, as has already been referenced, that if you load devb-btmm manually before diskboot, then everything
 works itself out.

I just made a copy of the normal SMP build file and added the BusLogic driver.  Trouble is, you have to do this in a non
-VM and then convert the disk to a VM.

For completeness, below is a copy of what I called "/boot/build/vmwareesx.build".  Once you have that, just run:

   mkifs /boot/build/vmwareesx.build /.boot/vmwareesx.ifs

and you should be good to go.  Hopefully in the future, they'll make the normal boot CD do this correctly.

lew

#
# The build file for QNX Neutrino booting on a PC
#
[linker="ntox86-ld -T$QNX_TARGET/x86/lib/nto.link %(h!=0, -Ttext 0x%t%)%(d!=0, -Tdata 0x%d%) -o%o %i %[M -L%^i -uinit_%n
 -lmod_%n%]"]
[virtual=x86,bios +compress] boot = {
        # Reserve 64k of video memory to handle multiple video cards 
        startup-bios -s64k

        # PATH is the *safe* path for executables (confstr(_CS_PATH...))
        # LD_LIBRARY_PATH is the *safe* path for libraries (confstr(_CS_LIBPATH))
        #    i.e. This is the path searched for libs in setuid/setgid executables.
        PATH=/proc/boot:/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/bin LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/proc/boot:/lib:/usr/lib:/lib/dll:/opt/lib procnto-smp-
instr
}

[+script] startup-script = {
        # To save memory make everyone use the libc in the boot image!
        # For speed (less symbolic lookups) we point to libc.so.3 instead of libc.so
        procmgr_symlink ../../proc/boot/libc.so.3 /usr/lib/ldqnx.so.2

        # diskboot doesn't detect the BusLogic SCSI host adapter
        # used by VMware ESXi, so we have to load it manually
        devb-btmm cam quiet blk auto=partition btmm ioport=0x1060,irq=11
        waitfor /dev/hd0

        # Default user programs to priorty 10, other scheduler (pri=10o)
        # Tell "diskboot" this is a hard disk boot (-b1)
        # Tell "diskboot" to use DMA on IDE drives (-D1)
        # Start 4 text consoles buy passing "-n4" to "devc-con" (-o)
        # By adding "-e" linux ext2 filesystem will be mounted as well.
        [pri=10o] PATH=/proc/boot diskboot -b1 -D1 -odevc-con,-n4 -odevc-con-hid,-n4
}

# Include the current "libc.so". It will be created as a real file using
# its internal "SONAME", with "libc.so" being a symlink to it. The symlink
# will point to the last "libc.so.*" so if an earlier libc is needed
# (e.g. libc.so.1) add it before the this line.
libc.so
libhiddi.so
libusbdi.so

# Include all the files for the default filesystems
libcam.so
io-blk.so
cam-disk.so
fs-qnx4.so
fs-qnx6.so
fs-dos.so
fs-ext2.so
cam-cdrom.so
fs-cd.so

# USB for console driver
devu-ehci.so
devu-ohci.so
devu-uhci.so
devh-usb.so
devh-ps2ser.so

# These programs only need to be run once from the boot image.
# "data=uip" will waste less memory as the ram from the boot
# image will be used directly without making a copy of the data
# (i.e. as the default "data=cpy" does). When they have been
# run once, they will be unlinked from /proc/boot.
[data=copy]
seedres
pci-bios
devb-eide
devb-umass
devb-ahci
devb-mvSata
devb-btmm
umass-enum
[search=${MKIFS_PATH}:${QNX_TARGET}/etc] umass-enum.cfg
io-usb
io-hid
diskboot
slogger
fesh
devc-con
devc-con-hid

# These files will be unlinked after the system has started
# to release the memory back to the system. They are only
# needed during boot. If needed later on, they will be loaded
# from the boot device.
unlink_list={
/proc/boot/devb-*
}