virtualized ESXi - disk device does not support OSDATA

[lejeczeki]

hi guys.

Latest version 8.x of ESXi which I run a trial of, fails - for me that is - to use emulated disk/drive, fails with:

disk device does not support OSDATA

I read that previous ESXi releases did/do work in KVM/Qemu - would anybody know if it's possible to "fix" this - without passing-through devices?

many thanks, L.

[allan trambouze]

you can try one of the following methods:

 

Use a SCSI controller instead of a SATA or IDE controller for the emulated disk/drive. Some users reported that this worked for them.

Specify the size of the ESX-OSData partition manually by adding the parameter autoPartitionOSDataSize=8192 (or any other value in MB) after the cdromBoot runweasel command in the ESXi installer boot options.

Add a persistent storage device to the system and set autoPartition=TRUE to allow initializing it with an ESX-OSData partition

[pcgeek2009]

I believe there is a work around, at least for 7 that was posted by William Lam. You may try the same changes for 8:

https://williamlam.com/2020/05/changing-the-default-size-of-the-esx-osdata-volume-in-esxi-7-0.html