Two Virtual PC on different host with common shared HARD drive PC: problem

I configured two virtual PC with win2003 to test Oracle RAC, one on desktop PC (host operating system is WinXP) and 2nd on my laptop (host operating system is Vista) both virtual PC is using shared drives, pointing to my desktop PC, but these shared drives do not work as hard shared common for virtual machines. When I'm all shared formatting HDD 1 PC other PC watch is not formatted.

SinghBaba wrote:

Please, I beg you. find the attached files.

I tried - scsi1.sharedbus = "virtual" too, but...

You try to share a virtual disk between two virtual machines using a SCSI reservation.

VMware Server does not supports drive sharing between virtual machines sitting on different hosts (desktop & laptop).  You can't do that.

Your two virtual machines need to be on the same host computer.

Please read carefully the documentation, specifically the chapter "questions to consider when sharing disks"

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