On Tuesday 28 October 2008 at 10:48 am, Grant McWilliams penned about "Re: [vbox-users] shared disk?"
> Pablo, Hi Grant, > 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? That's correct. > 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 was thinking that that may be an option but then I stumbled upon the recipe to use VMware for exactly what I'm trying to do: set up a couple of Oracle Real-Application Clusters. > 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. As this is a DBMS, I do need the write-safety. If people are interested, I can post back to the group my experience with VMware Server. I just cloned one VM and I'm about to tailor the clone (after lunch/run activity). > Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use > Windows." Now they have two problems. Oh absolutely. Along those lines, I didn't want to continue to invest time with VirtualBox on this front. Bridging is tons easier on VMware but I don't like the tabs for the VM's. I much prefer having a window which I can relocate from one desktop to another. It also seems VMware is slower but I don't have any hard metrics. Anyway, I'm just a cabinet maker looking for the right tool. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph: 819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
