Host OS - Mavericks 10.9.1
Guest OS - Lion 10.7.5
External USB/FW drive - Macally PHR-S250U3B containing a Samsung 840 Pro SSD with Lion 10.7.5
1. Created a pointer to USB/FW using vmware-rawdiskCreator (fullDevice, ide).
2. Created a VM 10.7 64-bit.
3. Added ide entries to .vmx file as
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "OSX-Samsung840-clone.vmdk"
4. Unable to boot from this ide device.
5. vmware.log contains the following last few lines.
2014-02-12T07:51:43.673-05:00| vmx| W110: USB: Device 0x4000000105ac020b, config 1, interface 0 with altsetting 1 not found
2014-02-12T07:51:57.888-05:00| vmx| I120: Tools: Tools heartbeat timeout.
2014-02-12T07:52:37.115-05:00| vmx| I120: GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox-dnd timed out.
2014-02-12T07:54:32.235-05:00| vmx| I120: GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.
2014-02-12T07:54:32.235-05:00| vmx| I120: Vix: [140735269671696 guestCommands.c:1926]: Error VIX_E_TOOLS_NOT_RUNNING in VMAutomationTranslateGuestRpcError(): VMware Tools are not running in the guest
2014-02-12T08:09:08.638-05:00| vmx| I120: HDAudio: HDAudioDefaultBackingDeviceChangedCb: Received request to change default sound backing device.
2014-02-12T08:09:08.638-05:00| vmx| I120: SoundUtilMacos_ExtractAudioDeviceStr: Sound input device: AppleHDAEngineInput:1B,0,1,0:1.
2014-02-12T08:09:08.638-05:00| vmx| I120: SoundUtilMacos_ExtractAudioDeviceStr: Sound output device: AppleHDAEngineOutput:1B,0,1,1:0.
2014-02-12T08:18:41.433-05:00| vmx| I120: HDAudio: HDAudioDefaultBackingDeviceChangedCb: Received request to change default sound backing device.
2014-02-12T08:18:41.433-05:00| vmx| I120: SoundUtilMacos_ExtractAudioDeviceStr: Sound input device: AppleHDAEngineInput:1B,0,1,0:1.
2014-02-12T08:18:41.433-05:00| vmx| I120: SoundUtilMacos_ExtractAudioDeviceStr: Sound output device: AppleHDAEngineOutput:1B,0,1,1:0.
Any help in getting this to work be appreciated. Using a different MBP, this device boots properly.