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Re: [Xen-users] Sharing filesystems between VMs.

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Sharing filesystems between VMs.
From: Andy Smith <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 16:30:54 +0000
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On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 05:09:01PM +0100, Andy Davidson wrote:
> This doesn't seem to work presently.  When I bring up the 'second' 
> machine in the cluster, I get :
> 
> qa-host:/etc/xen/auto# xm create xm-manager
> Using config file "xm-manager".
> Error: Error creating domain: vbd: Segment not found: 
> uname=file:/export/vm/vm-usrlocal

You can't export the same vbd twice r/w, and maybe not even r/o, I
forget.  There is just no facility for doing that and AFAIK the
error you get is saving you from seeing both domains crash.

You need a cluster file system like GFS, OCFS, etc., or just NFS.

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