Pablo,

 So out of your experimentation have you decided that without going to iscsi
you cannot have two VMs in VirtualBox access the same disk image with write
access? I think the only way you could do this is by exporting the host
drive via iscsi and then using Vboxes iscsi initiator to give the disk to
the VM. I'm not sure if VMware will freak out if you have one disk sent to
more than one VM but I have reason to believe that it will be fine. We're
not talking about writing safely though.

Grant McWilliams

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use
Windows."
Now they have two problems.



On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:55 AM, Pablo Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tuesday 28 October 2008 at 7:03 am, Brian J. Murrell penned
> about "Re: [vbox-users] shared disk?"
>
> > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 20:49 -0400, Pablo Sanchez wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm currently converting my .vdi's to a .vmdk:
> >
> > Ahhh.  So your assertion is then that the problem is with VDIs only
> > and not a general problem of VirtualBox, and if you use VMDKs
> > instead it's achievable?
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> Sorry I wasn't clear ... no, in order to satisify my `shared disk'
> needs, I'm using VMware Server.  I was planning on converting the
> .VDI's I had already created so I could use them in VMWare;
> unfortunately it didn't work.  Oh well.
>
> Luckily it wasn't difficult to create a new VM and install the O/S.
>
> > P.S. Or maybe you are converting to VMDKs to use vmware-server
> > instead.  That would be a pity.
>
> Unfortunately, yes.  That's what I'm doing.  :(
>
> Cheers,
> --
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