[Ocfs2-users] ocfs2 on VMware workstation

[AJ Weber]

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.

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).

Here's some of the lines I found in one of my configs...maybe some Googling on them will figure it out for you?

-----------SNIP-----------
disk.locking = "FALSE"
diskLib.dataCacheMaxSize = "0"
diskLib.dataCacheMaxReadAheadSize = "0"
diskLib.dataCacheMinReadAheadSize = "0"
diskLib.dataCachePageSize = "4096"
diskLib.maxUnxyncedWrites = "0"
scsi1.sharedBus = "VIRTUAL"

scsi1.present = "TRUE"
scsi1:2.present = "TRUE"
scsi1:2.fileName = "ClusterDisk1.vmdk"
scsi1:2.mode = "independent-persistent"
scsi1.virtualDev = "lsilogic"

scsi1:2.redo = ""

----------SNIP--------------

-AJ


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dr J Pelan 
  To: Brian Kroth 
  Cc: ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 5:43 PM
  Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] ocfs2 on VMware workstation



  On Tue, 20 May 2008, Brian Kroth wrote:

  > It could be a virtual shared block device.  

  I wasn't asking if it could be done, I was asking if it had been done ;-) 
  However now that you mention it, I suspect some unsupported tricks are 
  required to get Workstation 6 to share a virtual device.

  --
  John P.

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