Hi, It will work. You have to create a scsi vmdk with independent and persistent reservation option, you have to add it to both of your vms. It is supported in vmware server 2 (and it is free), but I think workstation can do this too, maybe it involves some manual .vmx editing.
petya On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 18:09 +0100, Detlef Ulherr wrote: > kevin wrote: > > I am learning parallel programming using MPI these days, so I want to build > > a cluster for testing examples in my textbook. > > > > I installed two virtual machines running OpenSolaris on VMware workstation > > on my laptop, and I am trying to build a two-nodes cluster with them. > > > > It seems pretty hard for me. Does anyone have any experience or any useful > > information on this? > > > Hi Kevin, > > you will fail on the shared storage for a two node cluster, because > vmware workstation does not support scsi reservations. A single node > cluster works perfect with vmware workstation. You can failover data > services between container. I am developing this way since several > years, and I can tell you by expereince that it works. > > Cheers > Detlef >
