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 [...]
Anyone following my tweets last night would know I installed Vista SP1 and VMware Server 1.0.5 last night. While I was doing the Oracle workshops I didn’t really want to mess with my laptop much, but now I’m having a right good rummage. The Windows Vista SP1 installation took about 45 minutes and didn’t report [...]
Articles: I think I’m finally getting myself back on track. It’s been an unusual few weeks though. I spent quite some time complaining that I couldn’t think of anything to write about and hoping 11g would inspire me. Since the release of 11g and the inevitable installation articles, I’ve felt rather lethargic again. Getting into [...]
It’s been an exciting couple of days on the upgrade front… First, VMware released VMware Server 1.0.4. Don’t expect any new functionality. I can’t see anything different here, but it allegedly contains a whole bunch of security fixes, which is nice. Still no RHEL5 in the guest OS list, and the Vista support is still [...]
I spent the Bank Holiday weekend playing with 10g RAC on Linux. I don’t have a FireWire disk, and I didn’t want to destroy my NAS, so I decided to user VMware Server to fake it. That process resulted in this: Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2.0.1) RAC Installation On CentOS 4 Using VMware Server [...]