Sun Cluster on VirtualBox

[agath]

I tried to configure two node Solaris Cluster 3.3 on Solaris 10 guests in VirtualBox. Everything was fine until i added the quorum device. Exactly when adding it the system panic'd with messages like "cluster lost operational quorum" "Issuing NULL preempt on quorum device failed" "pm_tick delay of 226518361 ms exceeds 5050 ms" etc. I don't have any issues whatsoever when I use a quorum server instead of quorum disk. Any idea why the shared disk is giving this problem for quorum? I believe virtualbox does support shared disk with the shareable option, so I should not have any issues using that as a quorum device. Pls help

[agath]

Is there no one who tried Solaris Cluster on Virtual Box with shared disk as quorum device?

[eigonzalez]

Hello I'm triying, but getting this messages just before it node 1 gets aborted
Oct 10 21:38:33 konoha Cluster.CCR: [ID 914260 daemon.warning] Failed to retrieve global fencing status from the global name server
Oct 10 21:38:33 konoha last message repeated 1 time
Oct 10 21:38:33 konoha Cluster.CCR: [ID 485680 daemon.warning] reservation warning(node_join) - Unable to lookup local_only flag for device dsk/d1.
Oct 10 21:38:33 konoha Cluster.CCR: [ID 485680 daemon.warning] reservation warning(node_join) - Unable to lookup local_only flag for device dsk/d2.b

The d2 is a disc using the shareable option in vbox....

[chefmacncheese]

I've written up a procedure for this on my personal web. It includes a two node cluster, shared storage, and a quorum disk. Feel free to have a look and let me know how it works out.
The URL is http://webcave.us/doku.php?id=prophead:cluster_in_a_box.