I have this PC, which runs an old Nikon LS-2000 film scanner via an Adaptec AHA-2940 PCI SCSI card. If I run ESXi I'm afraid the SCSI interface won't be presented to the virtualized operating systems. Because of the Adaptec ASPI thing required to get it working, I have to use a 32bit Windows OS (I heard it works on Windows 7, but XP is already unsupported).
I have an XP installation with all the necessary software to run the scanner. Since I want to keep the XP installation, I want to install ESXi on a partition, but it insists on using the whole disk! Will I be able to run my SCSI scanner from inside a VM? Or should I just give up the idea of running ESXi on that machine?