Re: Oracle VM Server on VirtualBox

From: Avi Miller <avi.miller_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:02:59 +1100
Message-ID: <4eccd2d9$0$29871$c3e8da3$5496439d_at_news.astraweb.com>



On 2011-11-21 09:29:37 +0000, mhoys said:

> Did anyone try to install Oracle VM Server on Oracle Linux on
> VirtualBox on Windows 7 64-bit? Would be nice if this works...

This is not supported -- VirtualBox doesn't provide the full dmidecode information required by the Oracle VM Server discovery process. Also, there is little benefit to running a hypervisor inside a hypervisor: it would be almost impossible to run anything meaningful within the VirtualBox instance. Received on Wed Nov 23 2011 - 05:02:59 CST

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