Experiences with Oracle 10g/11g RAC on VMWare Fusion for Macbook and OEL 5

Folks,
I recently purchased a new Macbook Pro laptop computer to use for demos and testing with Oracle RAC. I am using VMWare Fusion for Mac OS X to setup new VM machines with Oracle 11g.
Thus far, I can setup single instance Oracle 11g database fine with OEL 5 (32 bit OS) as the guest OS. The problem that I keep running into due to the limitation with VMWare Fusion product is that I am not able to edit the VMWare network settings to allow multiple VM machines to communicate with each other. The second main issue that I currently face is that VMWare Fusion does not allow you to setup shared disks which are a requirement to install and configure an Oracle RAC environment. I came to the realization that after searching forums online that
one must setup a third VM machine to act as an NFS or iSCSI filer system to present to the other VM hosts for the shared storage requirement for RAC. Has anyone been able to do all
of this successfully with VMWare Fusion on a Macbook ? If so, I would definitely be interested in finding out how you did this. Specifically the following:
1. Network configuration for each VMWare Fusion guest OS machine
2. Shared storage ie) NFS or OpenFiler VM machine
Regards,
Ben

Hi,
I'm facing the same issue.. If your issue is fixed..could you please let me know?
I'm trying to configure 11g RAC with OPenfiler and got stuck here.
Regards,
Kumar

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