VirtualBox 4.0.10 released. It’s a maintenance released with a number of bug fixes. Happy upgrading! Cheers Tim…
I mentioned a few days ago I was having trouble running Oracle VM inside VirtualBox. I had tried with multiple versions of VirtualBox (including the latest 4.0.8), so I finally decided that is must be an issue with the host OS (Fedora 14). Today I worked up the enthusiasm and trashed my server by replacing [...]
VirtualBox 4.0.8 has been released. Happy upgrading… Cheers Tim…
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 [...]
I just got home to find a question about my RAC on VirtualBox article. The poster was having problems creating the virtual disks using the commands in the article. A quick scan through the docs reveals a number of changes to the way VirtualBox 4.0.0 handles disks and also changes to the VBoxManage syntax. I’ve [...]
VirtualBox 4.0.0 Released. I first saw it mentioned here. Got my download and I’m ready to go. Cheers Tim…
VirtualBox 3.2.12 is out. Happy upgrading. Cheers Tim…
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 [...]
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…
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 [...]