How to share disk between two guests OS

islander · Post by **islander** » 9. Jan 2009, 19:34

Hi Forum

I am a new VirtualBox. I wanna to know how to create share-disk between two guest OS. Can I carry out it in VirtualBox?

Post by **mpack** » 9. Jan 2009, 19:47

If you just want two or more guests to be able to access common files then you can use a shared folder on the host.

If you mean you want two guests to access a single virtual drive then that is harder. I believe VBox 2.1 allows you to mount the same drive in more than one VM, but those VMs cannot run at the same time. If you want simultaneous access then another possibility might be to mount the virtual drive in one VM and use internal networking and a network share.

Post by **TerryE** » 9. Jan 2009, 20:47

Whether you can or you can't, you also need your guest OS to support active clustering which rules out both Windows and most standard Linux implementations. Use file shares as mpack suggests.

islander · Post by **islander** » 10. Jan 2009, 05:00

mpack&TerryE

Got it.Thank you very much.