Tag Archives: oracle vm

Oracle VM [not] running inside VirtualBox…

I know what you are thinking, sounds like a dumb idea right? Well yes, it is pretty stupid, but it’s nice to do it for testing Oracle VM when you don’t want to dedicate a whole server to it. I’ve done this before with no worries. The screen grabs for this article were taken from an [...]

Sun’s xVM is here…

Sun have announced their revolutionary new product xVM. It’s an open source Xen derivative that installs on bare-metal. Wait a minute… That sounds remarkably like what Oracle did with Oracle VM, which was released about a year ago… So now we have four big players wanting a share of the market: VMware ESX (ESXi) Server [...]