> Does VirtualBox support distributed virtual hosting in any way form or > shape? For instance, if I want to make it so that my VM is replicated in > such a fashion as to enable it to survive a crash of the physical hardware > it runs on by failing over to another platform - is that possible?
Such feature does not exist in VirtualBox, but I think it can be done by tricky scripting. Teleporting (=Live migration) does not solve this case. You ask for "high-availability" (=HA), not "live migration" here. You can do this manually by adding the same VM to 2 different hosts (it requires shared folders, such as NFS or SMB). On both hosts you must add that VM: Machine->Add (at this point, you have 2 hosts pointing at the same VM, that exists on a shared network storage. Needless to say, that you also need HA storage.) Then you write script, that track guest's keepalive status by either "ping" or "guest properties enumerate" or "guest control execute", and if first host is down, start up the same VM on 2nd host. Best wishes, -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
