Hi, I wonder whether it is possible to access (read/write) a vmdk file of a specific running virtual machine from another running virtual machine, using Storage API. It exist a method to avoid the file locking?
Thanks in advance.
This sounds like a question for a different forum.
fwiw: I don't know of a way to use vprobes to provide this access. Vprobes is a facility for binary instrumentation of guest, vmm, vmx and vmkernel functions.
Hi virtualirfan, maybe you're right. BTW i can instrument the vmm in order to intercept every file lock and change, for example, the flag value of the lock structure?
Is this on hosted or ESX?
On ESX(i).
Vprobes is not yet supported on ESX. Please let VMware know if you'd like to see the support for ESX. I certainly would but they need to hear request for official support from more customers.
Hacking around, I couldn't find a good way to use vProbes for the use case you described. You could use HV-Exit to look for in/outs to the SCSI controller in the VMM (see https://github.com/vmware/vprobe-toolkit/blob/master/cookbook/vt-exit.emt)
Otherwise, if you know the vmkernel function or system call for opening a new virtual disk, you could just do:
$ vprobe -t FUNCTION_NAME
and you'll get a trace of all entries and exits to that function.
Not sure if this helps. Can you share more about the use case?