I have recently converted a Windows XP PC and imported it into our ESXi environment. I am now trying to add a CD/DVD drive to the guest, but I am receiving the following error:
"Recommended controller is full, New CD/DVD Drive is placed on SATA(0:0)"
I proceeded with applying the changes using SATA(0:0), but the drive never appeared on the guest, but an unknown PCI device did show up in Device Manager. Rebooting the guest and removing/re-adding the CD/DVD drive from vCenter have no effect. If I try to manually set the drive to use IDE(0:0) like most of the other guests are configured, I receive a message saying this operation cannot be performed in the current state (powered on)....although I'm not sure what else would be using IDE?
The guest is configured as follows:
VM Version 10
Hard Disk 1
Buslogic Parallel 0 (I tried LSI, but did not work...I guess driver does not exist in XP?
No - CD/DVD
No - Floppy
No - USB
SATA Controller 0
Any ideas as to what I can check?