How to fix android-x86 install on VMware?
You need to follow the instructions.  Specifically:

You have to change your virtual disk type to be IDE because the default type in VMware is SCSI, and [the] Android-x86 kernel is not configured to support SCSI. You can follow these steps:



Create a virtual machine.



Edit [the] virtual machine settings after the virtual machine [is] created.
Choose the hard disk and remove it.
Add a hard disk to create a new virtual disk, then you can choose IDE as your virtual disk type.
When finished, you can install android-x86 normally.