I saw this in another post

I am running dss-lite in a vm.

1) Download DSS-lite and complete usb installation
2) Download WinImage (30 day demo works fine)
3) plug in usb key and launch WinImage
4) In WinImage, select "Disk" --> "Create Virtual Hard Disk from physical drive"

select your usb disk from the pop-up, click o.
type in desired file name and make sure to select "VMware *.vmdk" as the file type.
let it cook.

5) go into vmware (server/workstation) and create a new vmachine, select the CUSTOM option.

Select "Linux" and then "other linux" from the drop down box. Type in your vm name, select location,go through the standard steps,etc...

Select LSI Logic as the I/O adapter. At the select a disk, select "Use an existing virtual disk", browse to the vmdk file created in step 4 and select it. It will complete. Edit the vm by adding another hard drive to use as your data store for testing. Good luck.