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Adding More Than Three SCSI Adapters to a Virtual Machine Causes Error
Details
When I add
more than three SCSI adapters to a virtual machine, I am unable to
power on the virtual machine. Workstation displays the error
message
Unable
to allocate PCI sound adapter. Too many PCI devices already
configured.
What should
I do?
Solution
To work around
this issue, you need to remove one of the PCI adapters from the
virtual machine. The only way to remove a SCSI adapter is by
editing the configuration (.vmx) file manually.
Remove all
devices connected to the virtual SCSI adapter you are going to
remove.
Disable the SCSI
adapter. Using a text editor, open the configuration file and add
the following lines: scsi.present = "FALSE"
scsi3.present = "FALSE"
In this example,
3 is the SCSI adapter
number of the virtual SCSI adapter to remove.
The virtual
machine should now power on successfully.
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