10g RAC on VMWare Workstation

Hi Folks,
i tried to install 10g RAC on VMWare 4.5.2 for testing.
Hostsystem is XP, ghost system are RedHat-ES-30.
I configured tho 2 nodes with 2 scsi adapters and 2 Network Card and a shared Disk.
I installed ocfs 1.0.12 on both nodes, formated the disk and it seems to be fine.
On the next step ( Installation of CRS ) the runInstaller fails after the node configuration screen with the message:
Oracle Cluster Registry File can only be saved on a shared filesystem file or on a RAW Device.
Any Ideas ?
Thanks
Martin

Hi Laurent,
Thanks for your reply.
I checked that and i can't find the Processes or any think else witch is discribed in thr article !
The Installer pops a message during the creation of the ocr file.
Have any body tried it with RAW Devices ?
Martin

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