Opened 15 years ago
Closed 15 years ago
#7538 closed defect (worksforme)
Problem with shareable disks created using VBoxManage createhd
| Reported by: | joeyjoe | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | virtual disk | Version: | VirtualBox 3.2.8 |
| Keywords: | sharable disk shared disk | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | Linux | Host type: | Windows |
Description
I created a shareable disk in this manner:
C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage createhd --filename C:\Users\owner\.VirtualBox\HardDisks\asm20.vmdk --size 1000 --format VMDK --variant fixed --type shareable
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100% Disk image created. UUID: c8f9976a-6ce0-49c0-ac2d-e96a33bc2f5e
After sharing it between two vm's intended for use with Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), only one vm can start at a time. The other gets:
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine rac2. Locking of attached media failed. Result Code: VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE (0x80BB0007) Component: Machine Interface: IMachine {6d9212cb-a5c0-48b7-bbc1-3fa2ba2ee6d2}
Has anyone successfully used shareable disks for Oracle RAC with the "--type sharable" option?
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 15 years ago
comment:2 by , 15 years ago
| Resolution: | → worksforme |
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| Status: | new → closed |
It's a misunderstanding apparently - it works if you specify --register as well. The "type" is only used if you register it at the same time.
The GUI cannot register images as shared, you can only change this for already registered images via the command line, e.g. with VBoxManage modifyhd /path/to/image --type shared.
There are "RAC using VirtualBox" tutorials out there: http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/11g/OracleDB11gR2RACInstallationOnOEL5UsingVirtualBox.php
Not particularly hard to find actually...