I have a rather obscure problem that I am hoping someone has seen before. I have a functioning Redhat 4 cluster with GFS and I have been running Vmware Workstation 5 instances out of the GFS filesystem with no real problems. However, now I am attempting to setup a two node Microsoft cluster server using Vmware and shared disk files all stored on GFS. I have created the shared disk files and edited the Vmware configuration file as per the instructions for setting up a cluster. However, when I start the Vmware cluster first node it locks up before the Windows login screen, cannot be killed and requires a hard reboot of the Redhat server. But if I move the local part of the Vmware machine (configuration and C: drive file) to an ext3 filesystem but leave the shared disks on the GFS filesystem it all appears to work ok. There are no errors in the log file but the server load climbs dramatically after the lockup. Any suggestions? Here is the relevant bit from my vmx file. #!/usr/bin/vmware config.version = "8" virtualHW.version = "4" memsize = "512" # Shared bus settings diskLib.dataCacheMaxSize = "0" diskLib.dataCacheMaxReadAheadSize = "0" diskLib.dataCacheMinReadAheadSize = "0" diskLib.dataCachePageSize = "4096" diskLib.maxUnsynchedWrites = "0" disk.locking = "FALSE" # INTERNAL SCSI HBA scsi0.present = "TRUE" scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic" # INTERNAL disk 1 scsi0:0.present = "TRUE" scsi0:0.fileName = "adc-g-1.vmdk" scsi0:0.redo = "" # Shared disk HBA scsi1.present = "TRUE" scsi1.virtualDev = "lsilogic" scsi1.sharedBus = "virtual" # Shared Quorum disk scsi1:0.present = "TRUE" scsi1:0.fileName = "/export/VMware/adc-g-cluster/Quorum.vmdk" scsi1:0.redo = "" scsi1:0.mode = "independent-persistent" scsi1:0.deviceType = "disk" scsi1:0.virtualDev = "lsilogic" # Shared Data disk 1 scsi1:1.present = "TRUE" scsi1:1.fileName = "/export/VMware/adc-g-cluster/SharedData1.vmdk" scsi1:1.redo = "" scsi1:1.mode = "independent-persistent" scsi1:1.deviceType = "disk" scsi1:1.virtualDev = "lsilogic" Robert Ruge School of Information Technology, Deakin University -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
