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How to share disk between two guests OS
Posted: 9. Jan 2009, 19:34
by islander
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?
Posted: 9. Jan 2009, 19:47
by mpack
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.
Posted: 9. Jan 2009, 20:47
by TerryE
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.
Posted: 10. Jan 2009, 05:00
by islander
mpack&TerryE
Got it.Thank you very much.