[libvirt-users] Oracle RAC in libvirt+KVM environment

Stefan Hajnoczi stefanha at gmail.com
Mon Aug 12 09:49:07 UTC 2013


On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 01:58:24PM +0800, Timon Wang wrote:
> We wan't to setup two Oracle instance and make RAC work on them.
> Both VM are setup based on libvirt + KVM, we use a lvm lun which
> formated in qcow2 format and set the shareable properties in the disk
> driver like this:
> 
>     <disk type='block' device='disk'>
>       <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='none'/>

qcow2 is not cluster-aware, it cannot be opened by multiple VMs at the
same time.

You must use raw.

Stefan




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