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I've made some progress.

It looks like the kernel provided in the EasyOS image does not detect the default hard drive controller that VMWare uses (SCSI):

https://people.freebsd.org/~patrick/EasyOS-VMWare-SCSI.png

It does work with the SCSI controller that Qemu uses however.

I have verified ...

n00b wrote: Sat Jun 22, 2024 9:35 pm

Increase easy-6.0-amd64.img to for example 16 GB:
truncate -s 16g easy-6.0-amd64.img

Thanks n00b.

Just tried that, with exactly the same results with both 5.8.3 and 6.0. "Line 1678: Cannot find easy.sfs"

I am attempting to install EasyOS (5.8.2, 5.8.3, 6.0) to a VM using VMWare Workstation, and am running into some challenges, which I've seen in forum posts, but only around USB Drives.

What I've done is to convert the easyos image into a vmdk qemu-img convert -O vmdk easy-5.8.2-amd64.img boot.vmdk ...