On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Alexey Eromenko <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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"
>
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Alexey,
This sounds like a very good idea. I will look into doing that.
Thanks!
Cheers,
Boris.
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