[Ocfs2-users] VM node won't talk to host

[Bret Baptist]

On Friday 29 August 2008 18:38:08 Bret Baptist wrote:
> On Thursday 28 August 2008 18:59:07 Sunil Mushran wrote:
> > If the VM is not seeing the host heartbeat, the issue is not
> > with heartbeat, but the fact that the VM ios are not hitting
> > the actual device. Buffered? See if there is some way
> > to disable buffering in the kvm emulated ide disk.
>
> I was thinking we were on to something here.  However I tried mounting an
> OCFS2 file system between two KVM VMs on the host server, accessing the AOE
> partition through IDE emulation, and everything worked exactly like I would
> expect.
>
> Color me really confused as to why mounting the OCFS2 disk on the host
> server and a VM running off that server would not work.
>
>
> Bret.
>

Two VMs running on separate host servers have the same issue as the host to VM 
does.  They both think they are the only cluster member mounting the device. 

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