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Oracle RAC on VirtualBox…

With the recent news that the latest version of VirtualBox now supports shared disks, I thought I better give it a go and see if I could do a RAC installation on it. The good news is it worked as expected. You can see a quick run through here: Oracle Database 11g Release 2 RAC [...]

Posted 12 August 2010 † Tim... § Linux § Oracle ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: , ,

VirtualBox now supports shared disks…

Thomas Roach just posted about the latest version of VirtualBox supporting shared disks. Seems like I can finally get rid of VMware Server and become a complete Oracle bitch… Cheers Tim…

Posted 09 August 2010 † Tim... § Oracle ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: ,

VirtualBox 3.0 and Macs and stuff…

I read today that VirtualBox 3.0 has been released. In the past this wouldn’t have been a big thing for me because I mostly use VMware Server on my Linux box, but now I’m a MacBook owner it has more interest. I refuse to pay money for the crippled VMware Fusion on Mac, so VirtualBox [...]

Posted 01 July 2009 † Tim... § Random ‡ Comments (6) ° Also tagged: ,

Desktop Virtualization Tools…

Some quick thoughts on the state of desktop virtualization tools… Background If you’ve been checking out my RAC articles, you’ll have probably noticed I’m a bit of a VMware fan. I originally used VMware Workstation, but switched to the free VMware Server when it was released in 2006. I don’t have much cause to complain [...]

Posted 05 July 2008 † Tim... § Random ‡ Comments (7) ° Also tagged: , , , ,