After upgrading to Fusion 5 I get this message when starting Windows XP:
'Windows XP does not include drivers for the BusLogic SCSI adapter that VMware Fusion uses for virtual SCSI devices.
To use these virtual SCSI devices, install the VMware driver in the virtual machine. Download the driver from "http://vmware.com/info?id=43".'
(Also happened after upgrading to Fusion 4, but never resolved it then either. Had to buy a physical Windows machine to do my taxes last year.)
The referenced link does not point to SCSI drivers, at least not directly, but to all downloads.
The one I tried was downloaded as a floppy disk, vmscsi-1.2.0.4.flp. (The downloads site and knowledge base are offline now, so can't give you the precise link used to download this.)
After mounting the floppy, and pointing to it after asking XP to update its SCSI driver, then restarting the guest, I still get the message about needing a BusLogic driver, and the guest is really slow.
Is this the right SCSI driver from VmWare's download site?
Also, I found a knowledge-base article about switching between LsiLogic and BusLogic, by editing the .vmx file (entitled, "Changing the type of SCSI controller used in a Fusion virtual machine"), but this didn't help.
I did follow the advice given there of upgrading the virtual hardware.
Am I trying to use the correct SCSI driver?
Is there any reason to continue using SCSI, or that the only option?