Background I wanted to try Omarchy and as per usual I installed it as a VM before committing to running it on my hardware. However I ran into some problems, it took me avail to figure it out. Thought I’d write it down for myself and perhaps for those with the same problem. Root Cause The root cause is that VMware dosen’t provide the grahics that Omarchy expects and can automatically handle. This gives you a desktop/GUI that’s non functional. ...
The problem is that VMWare by default doesn’t provide information needed by udev to generate /dev/disk/by-id entries. Apart from ESX, VMWare Workstation is also affected. The resolution is to put disk.EnableUUID = "TRUE" to the virtual machine definition, i.e. into the *.vmx file or via Edit Settings -> Options tab -> General -> Configuration Parameters in ESX UI. After rebooting VM with this parameter set, the disk are visible in /dev/disk/by-id and multipathd doesn’t complain anymore. I had to power off the VM, and then go to Edit Settings -> VM Options -> Advanced -> EDIT CONFIGURATION.