In the configure script there is a isvm flag. What does that actually do during the config?

asked 15 Feb, 21:54

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it is for VM only (used internally) and not needed for regular cluster configuration

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answered 15 Feb, 22:38

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I don't want to sound like a jerk, but that doesn't answer the question. What does it do, I understand that the documentation says I should use with with a VM, but fundamentally, why is it there, what setting gets changed? What happens if I have a cluster on a VM host and don't do it. Trying to open the black box on this one :)

(16 Feb, 06:38) mandoskippy

It triggers a number of changes on VM's, notably including changes in the hardware timeouts that are used to declare dead disks. This is required because the hardware emulation layer tends to wrap the low level hardware timeouts with longer timeouts before delivering error messages.

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