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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I did this late last year with two CentOS VM's (on
Workstation 5.5). I would have to look for them, but you can create a
second "disk" with one of the VMs. Then you shut that one down. With
the second one, you add the disk (in the config), but don't start the VM.
You have to add a line in each of the VM's vmx file to set it to NOT lock that
disk.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now that I think of it, you _might_ need to use
VMWare Server to get that line to work in the config...I somehow remember
building the VMs, but running into trouble when I needed the extra flexibility
of the disk locking (and I have VMWare Server on other PCs so it could have been
copied there to finish the experiment).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here's some of the lines I found in one of my
configs...maybe some Googling on them will figure it out for you?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-----------SNIP-----------</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>disk.locking = "FALSE"<BR>diskLib.dataCacheMaxSize
= "0"<BR>diskLib.dataCacheMaxReadAheadSize =
"0"<BR>diskLib.dataCacheMinReadAheadSize = "0"<BR>diskLib.dataCachePageSize =
"4096"<BR>diskLib.maxUnxyncedWrites = "0"<BR>scsi1.sharedBus =
"VIRTUAL"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>scsi1.present = "TRUE"<BR>scsi1:2.present =
"TRUE"<BR>scsi1:2.fileName = "ClusterDisk1.vmdk"<BR>scsi1:2.mode =
"independent-persistent"<BR>scsi1.virtualDev = "lsilogic"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>scsi1:2.redo = ""</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>----------SNIP--------------</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-AJ</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=johnp@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk href="mailto:johnp@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk">Dr J
Pelan</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=bpkroth@wisc.edu
href="mailto:bpkroth@wisc.edu">Brian Kroth</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com
href="mailto:ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com">ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 20, 2008 5:43 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Ocfs2-users] ocfs2 on
VMware workstation</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR>On Tue, 20 May 2008, Brian Kroth wrote:<BR><BR>> It
could be a virtual shared block device. <BR><BR>I wasn't asking if it
could be done, I was asking if it had been done ;-) <BR>However now that you
mention it, I suspect some unsupported tricks are <BR>required to get
Workstation 6 to share a virtual device.<BR><BR>--<BR>John
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