On Tuesday 28 October 2008 at 11:21 am, Brian J. Murrell penned
about "Re: [vbox-users] shared disk?"
> On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 11:07 -0400, Pablo Sanchez wrote:
> >
> > The problem with VirtualBox is you can't have two VM's mount the same
> > VDI.
>
> How does it prevent it? Is it as I described in my last message in the
> GUI?
Exactly, in the GUI. When you're trying to associate a VDI which is
already allocated to another VM, the GUI won't allow it.
> Does using a raw disk really prevent the GUI from preventing one
> from assigning the disk to two VMs?
This I don't know as I moved over to VMware for this portion of the
work.
> > You could do it with a raw device and you'd have to each VM
> > install a Clustered File System - theoretically it should work.
>
> But if the GUI prevents the dual assignment as above, it won't be
> possible.
I believe the User Manual instructs how to use the CLI to do the
association.
> > Apparently VMware Server makes it very simple to implement the `shared
> > disk'
>
> "simple"? Maybe. It requires some .vmdk file tweaks. But that's for
> another list. :-)
:)
If you're interested, you can google `oracle rac vmware' Click the
first link:
ORACLE-BASE - Oracle 10g RAC on Linux Using VMware Server
That's the recipe I'm currently following.
Cheers,
--
Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc
Ph: 819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US)
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