RE: vmware vmx parameters

From: Luca Canali <Luca.Canali_at_cern.ch>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:21:09 +0100
Message-ID: <F9411E3A291FB5449991ED7E624D27F4D191F5@cernxchg20.cern.ch>

Hi LiShan,

last time I tried something similar I found out that the 'shared disk parameters' (mainly scsi1.sharedBus ) were not supported on the workstation version of vmware I was using, although they worked there as well (at least I managed setup a 2 'virtual' node 9i rac). Those parameter were (are?) only documented for the server version of vmware (see for example vmware GSX documentation).

Cheers,
L.

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of LiShan Cheng Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 8:28 PM
To: oracle-l
Subject: vmware vmx parameters

I am installing a 2 node 10gR2 RAC in my labtop using vmware. I have come across some doubts

Setup:

Host OS: Windows XP PRO SP2
Guest OS: CentOS 4.2
VMWare Workstations 5.0

I am using a external USB Drive for all this setup, both Virtual Machines and the shared storage.

http://www.seagate.com/products/retail/portable/index.html

I have questions regarding vmware parameters, to start with does anyone know what does these paraneters do? (I understand they are used for Shared Storage). The best list I have found is here: http://dev.remotenetworktechnology.com/vmware/vmxfiles.htm

diskLib.dataCacheMaxSize = "0"
diskLib.dataCacheMaxReadAheadSize = "0"
diskLib.dataCacheMinReadAheadSize = "0"
diskLib.dataCachePageSize = "4096"
diskLib.maxUnsyncedWrites = "0"
scsi1.present = "TRUE"

scsi1.sharedBus = "virtual"
scsi1.virtualDev = "lsilogic"

I cant find anything in Vmware documentation which explains about these parameters. Since I am going to use them I would like to know at least what am I doing :-)

Regards

LSC

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Received on Mon Feb 27 2006 - 04:21:09 CST