Hi All,
Setup
I am running a lab environment with VMWARe Workstattion 8.02.
I have 2 VM's running as ESXi Hosts, VCenter 5 and a DC.
For Storage I am running ISCSI to my home QNAP and have a Physical Desktop running Openfiler (3 by 1 TB).
Reason
I removed the data disks from my Openfiler desktop and slotted them into the desktop running VMWARE Workstation. I made a new VM and loaded Openfiler, attached the 3 by 1TB hard disks as physical disks to Openfiler. This allowed me to use the other desktop for other purposes.
Issue
Now here is where it gets weird, on all the other VM's I cannot use Keyboard or Mouse. When i have a VM running with a physical disk (entire disk), have not tried partition.
I have isolated it to using physical disks on the VM.
Diagnosis
If I attached a physical disk to a Windows or Linux box, I loose keyboard ond mouse functionality on all the VM's, except for the one running with the physical disk.
If I attached physical disks to multiple machines say a Linux and a Windows VM, I can use those VM's with the disks, any VM with no physical disks looses Keyboard/mouse control.
Well I am lost at the moment, I am guessing that it is going to be a setting in the VMX file, though I cannot see it. Has anyone experienced or can replicate the same issue.
Any comments, ideas, solutions, welcomed.