I’m sure this applies to other versions as well.
VMWare stores the configs, and files on the UNIX file system, which you have to edit by hand. Â You can’t do this in the UI, as VMWare tries to be SCSI only. Â But if you manually edit the files, you too can enjoy a virtual IDE disk.
You need to enable SSH access to the ESX server, or do this change on the console. Â Configs live in:
/vmfs/volumes/<storage group name>/<virtual machine>/
So for example, mine is:
/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/UnixWare 7.1.1/
First, edit the .vmdk file. Â You are looking for the line:
ddb.adapterType = “buslogic”
And you change the buslogic to ide like this:
# Extent description
RW 16777216 VMFS “UnixWare 7.1.1-flat.vmdk”
# The Disk Data Base
#DDB
ddb.adapterType = “ide”
ddb.geometry.cylinders = “1044”
ddb.geometry.heads = “255”
ddb.geometry.sectors = “63”
ddb.longContentID = “8f535bb60df8d73a86c24853fffffff
The next thing is to alter the vmx file. Â By default the hard disk will be on scsi0 and you’ll see something like this:
scsi0.present = “TRUE”
scsi0:0.deviceType = “scsi-hardDisk”
scsi0:0.fileName =Â “UnixWare 7.1.1.vmdk”
scsi0:0.present = “TRUE”
And what we do is rename the scsi0:0 to ide0:0
ide0:0.present = “TRUE”
ide0:0.deviceType = “disk”
ide0:0.fileName = “UnixWare 7.1.1.vmdk”
scsi0:0.present = “TRUE”
And you should be good to go. Â The other (much easier) alternative is to try to use the legacy OS/2 profile as it’ll install an IDE disk by default.

IDE hard disk on VMWare ESX
Yay!
You should check out sanbarrow’s guide to more options you can configure in your VMX file.