#1188 closed enhancement (wontfix)
Please support to share a disk image between two guests
| Reported by: | Bernd Zeimetz | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | VM control | Version: | VirtualBox 1.5.4 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | 465585-forwarded@… | |
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | other |
Description
Hi,
at the moment we face the problem that we need to test a cluster FS implementation within virtualbox, therefore we need to share a storage device between several guests. As current workaround we use a Linux guest providing an iscsi target. Things would be much more simple if virtualbox would allow to share one disk image between several guest systems.
Thanks in advance for implementing this feature,
Bernd
Change History (4)
comment:1 by , 16 years ago
comment:2 by , 16 years ago
| Component: | other → VM control |
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comment:3 by , 15 years ago
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Starting with 2.1.0, a disk image can be attached to two VMs at the same time, but only one of these two VMs can be powered on at the same time. Klaus already explained why we wouldn't implement sharing an image between running VMs. Closing.
comment:4 by , 15 years ago
I think it's a necessary feature for testing cluster configurations. The danger of enabling this feature may be explained in a comment or warning, but I think Virtual Box needs this feature to compete with VMWare.
Rather dangerous feature for 99.999% of the users. Must be carefully hidden. Otherwise users will treat FAT32 as a cluster filesystem and get after us when they lose data.