id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,guest,host
7538,Problem with shareable disks created using VBoxManage createhd,joeyjoe,,"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?",defect,closed,virtual disk,VirtualBox 3.2.8,worksforme,sharable disk shared disk,,Linux,Windows