Oracle VM Server as virtual machine

[aiea96701]

We want to setup a virtual machine with Oracle VM Server as the guest.   Does anyone know what Linux O/S is best used for this process?

[vmroyale]

Hello.

Note: This discussion was moved from the Virtual Machine & Guest OS community to the Virtualizing Oracle community.

Good Luck!

[kjb007]

If you want to test OVM, you should look into Oracle Enterprise Linux.  Otherwise, you're bolting things together.  Stick with one stack if you want to go down the oracle track.  If I had to choose between kvm on Linux vs OVM, I would stick with kvm.  But, this is a vmware forum, so I say neither are anywhere ready for primetime.  :-)

Good luck!

-KjB

[hjnorris]

Oracle's VM has it's own stripped down version of Linux that it uses.   Oracle provides VM templates for 11g database VM's that use Oracle Unbreakable Linux, which is a CENTOS distro, based on Red Hat. 

Once you have Oracle VM running and a VM machine created, you can install any OS you wish.

[Vaiper]

Hi,

one information!

It's possible that the oracle vm servers can't discoverd from the ovm manager. The OVM Manager says that the server are in use or so.

[Simon_H]

Just noticed this old post, but in case it helps, yes you can run a nested Oracle VM Server as a guest VM within vSphere. I set it up a year or so ago in ESXi 4.1 and OVM 2.2.1 - the guest had 2 vCPU and 6GB vRAM. I just booted the new guest VM using the OVM installer and don't remember having any problems installing it. I had OVMM running in a different ESXi guest VM.

Of course this was just a lab environment for experimentation purposes (like people are doing nesting vSphere too) and you wouldn't want to run like this in production.