Re: Oracle's VirtualBox utility
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:37:15 +0100
Message-Id: <20100804203715.2F20026D55B5_at_oberon.hgrfactory.com>
Hmm, when I read Open SuSE then I immediately thought about "ah, somebody else using xen". But then you asked about virtual box. Is there a reason you don't use para-virtualisation? Performance might be a lot better.
I have virtualised a 4 node RAC cluster plus two grid control 11.1 instances and performance is great (for a lab environment). Hardware is a core I920 with a lot of memory.
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- Reply message ----- From: "Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com> Date: Wed, Aug 4, 2010 18:43 Subject: Oracle's VirtualBox utility To: <norman.dunbar.capgemini_at_environment-agency.gov.uk> Cc: <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
Hi Norm, many laptops, even top of the range ones disable the VT bit in the BIOS. If you are lucky you can enable it, if you are unlucky *cough* Toshiba *cough* then you can't.
On 4 Aug 2010 15:18, "Dunbar, Norman (Capgemini)" < norman.dunbar.capgemini_at_environment-agency.gov.uk> wrote:
Afternoon all,
Laptop: Dell Vostro, 8GB RAM, 64bit "top of the range" Core 2 Duo CPU.
OS: OpenSuse 11.2 64 bit.
Oracle VirtualBox: 3.2.6 64 bit.
Just a quick question. I'm using this "now owned by Oracle" utility on
my laptop and I was attempting to install a 64 bit copy of Linux Mint 9
(for experimental purposes - soon to be Oracle Enterprise Linux 64 bit)
only to be told that the IsoLinux installer required a 64 bit machine to
install on.
I "know" that the version of VirtualBox I'm using is definitely 64 bit
(ok, it says so in the file name -
VirtualBox-3.2-3.2.6_63112_openSUSE111-1.x86_64.rpm) and is running on
top of OpenSuse 64 bit and the laptop is most definitely 64 bit so I'm a
tad surprised about the error.
The version of VirtualBox I'm using is *not* the Open Source Edition, it's the full version.
I have Googled for this problem and come across a number of quite old explanations but these are all (so far) relating to pre version 2.0 of VirtualBox which don't support 64 bit guests.
Just wondering if anyone has any experience of this and possibly a fix?
Cheers,
Norman.
Norman Dunbar
Contract Senior Oracle DBA
Capgemini Database Team (EA)
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