I mentioned in a previous post I had taken the plunge and upgraded to VMware Server 2 on my laptop. Now I’ve also upgraded my main machine at home and it seems to be working fine. Probably the most complicated thing I run at home is a virtual RAC, so I wrote a new article to document the installation:
From a user point of view, the only difference between VMware Server 1.x and 2 is the new web-based managment interface. The VM setup itself is almost identical and as you would expect, so is the Oracle installation.
So far so good.
Cheers
Tim…
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Hey Tim,
Are you booting into Vista with Disable Driver Signing Enforcement, or does VMware Server 2.0 have signed drivers now?
Me thinking upgrade too.
Thanks,
Posted 20 Nov 2008 at 12:36 pm ¶Gareth
Hi.
I don’t run any Vista VMs, if that’s what you mean.
I run VMware Server on a Vista host on my laptop and on CentOS 5 for my main machine. It works fine on both with no special mods.
Cheers
Tim…
Posted 20 Nov 2008 at 1:16 pm ¶No, I did mean Vista host … I’m running Vista 64bit and VMware server 1.0.4 … working fine other than your noted problem about first VM startup taking a while, and the Disable Driver Signing Enforcement…
Regards,
Posted 20 Nov 2008 at 11:07 pm ¶Gareth
Hi Tim, That is a great help for lots of people like me. I tried doing that with a host OEL5 but could not boot VM through dvd for guest OEL5 install. So far have not been able to fix that moreover that bridged network never worked. I will give it another shot soon.
Anyway I am trying Oracle’s alternative using Oracle VM server | VM mananger , paravirtualized OEL 5 and 11g RAC. I have not been able to find a good writeup, whatever info is available expects another machine for Oracle VM manager. Oracle certifies 11g RAC with Oracle VM . It should have been faster for a single standalone physical server and good learning tool .
Posted 05 Jun 2009 at 12:04 am ¶Sorry for rant,
Regards
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