On 08/08/2013 03:54 AM, Timon Wang wrote: > Anybody have idea on it? > > I tried to set the disk as raw format, and retried the setup process, > but still can't get through. Caveat: I know nothing in particular about Oracle RAC, but... Assuming that RAC uses something like SCSI reservations in order to share the disk, I would guess it doesn't like the disk being on the IDE bus. > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Timon Wang <timonwst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> We wan't to setup two Oracle instance and make RAC work on them. >> Both VM are setup based on libvirt + KVM, we use a lvm lun which >> formated in qcow2 format and set the shareable properties in the disk >> driver like this: >> >> <disk type='block' device='disk'> >> <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='none'/> >> <source dev='/dev/81035c32-d2e4-4aaf-82fa-3e76ae587586/ca18f6a5-7c98-46ea-b562-9424e68a52f3'/> >> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> >> <shareable/> >> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/> >> </disk> >> >> But when we use it as shared data disk like we use iscsi/FC disk for >> shared data disk, the disk can't be recognized as a share disk, and >> RAC can't be setup in the environment. >> >> Any body can give me some guild on this? >> >> I am wondering shareable in the libvirt config really makes the disk shareable? >> >> How can I setup the RAC environment in this situable? >> >> I found that vmware and vbox can do this according to a blog post, I >> am wondering if kvm has this ability to make a disk really shareable. >> >> -- >> Focus on: Server Vitualization, Network security,Scanner,NodeJS,JAVA,WWW >> Blog: http://www.nohouse.net > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
