[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#465585: virtualbox-ose: Please support to share a disk image between two guests

[Bernd Zeimetz]

Package: virtualbox-ose
Version: 1.5.4-dfsg-4
Severity: wishlist

Hi Michael,

at the moment we face the problem that we need to test a cluster FS
implementation within virtualbox, therefore we need to share a storage
device between several guests. As current workaround we use a Linux
guest providing an iscsi target. Things would be much more simple if
virtualbox would allow to share one disk image between several guest
systems.

Thanks in advance for implementing this feature,

Bernd


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.1 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.105            add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.18           Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                   2.7-6            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.3-20080116-1 GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1 7.0.2-3          A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.14.3-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libidl0                 0.8.9-0.1        library for parsing CORBA IDL file
ii  libqt3-mt               3:3.3.7-9        Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsdl1.2debian         1.2.11-9         Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libstdc++6              4.3-20080116-1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                2:1.0.3-7        X11 client-side library
ii  libxalan110             1.10-3.1         Provides XSLT support for applicat
ii  libxcursor1             1:1.1.9-1        X cursor management library
ii  libxerces27             2.7.0-5          validating XML parser library for 
ii  libxext6                1:1.0.3-2        X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxt6                  1:1.0.5-3        X11 toolkit intrinsics library

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose recommends:
ii  virtualbox-ose-modu 2.6.22+1.5.2-dfsg2-9 PC virtualization solution modules

-- debconf information:
  virtualbox-ose/upstream_version_change: false