As a last post in the series (1, 2, 3, 4): Installing the latest and greatest incarnation of the Oracle Database named “Oracle 11g” on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 running as a paravirtualized machine on Oracle VM Server. Honestly, i was afraid of installing Oracle the first time under a linux environment but i must […]
Installing the latest incarnation of Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 as a paravirtualized machine in Oracle VM Server is a bit tricky. The OEL5 is delivered as 5 iso files, cd images they are. The Oracle VM Manager is only able to install the patched paravirtualized guest system from one installation medium. Damn it, they praise […]
As promised, i’d like to share some experience with installing the new “Oracle VM Server”. The product isn’t as new as Oracle wants you to believe, it’s based on Xen 3.1.1 “with many, many performance enhancements done by our engineers”. We’ll see. After unpacking our shiny new Dell (The rabat action was entitled “My First […]