Comments on: How VirtualBox could create Opportunities for Oracle and it’s Partners http://www.ome-b.nl/2010/05/20/how-virtualbox-could-create-opportunities-for-oracle-and-it%e2%80%99s-partners/ Creative Software Solutions Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:12:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Douwe Pieter van den Bos http://www.ome-b.nl/2010/05/20/how-virtualbox-could-create-opportunities-for-oracle-and-it%e2%80%99s-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-466 Douwe Pieter van den Bos Thu, 20 May 2010 12:09:29 +0000 http://www.ome-b.nl/2010/05/20/how-virtualbox-could-create-opportunities-for-oracle-and-it%e2%80%99s-partners/#comment-466 Hi Edwin, True. Oracle offers images on Oracle's VM (based on Xen, right?). This technology is not designed for desktop virtualisation like VirtualBox is, it's hardware virtualisation so you'll need a blanc machine to deploy it on, not just your laptop... But the OVF standard works pretty good on importing images on any VirtualBox instance, not even depending on the host OS. And of course, Windows guest OS would be nice, but expensive. Fortunately a lot (if not most) Oracle software is first delevered on a Linux basis. Yesterday I created a ubuntu plus XE and APEX image on my mac, and then deployed it on my Vista machine running VirtualBox, no problems there. What do you think? Regards and thanks! Douwe Pieter Hi Edwin,

True. Oracle offers images on Oracle’s VM (based on Xen, right?). This technology is not designed for desktop virtualisation like VirtualBox is, it’s hardware virtualisation so you’ll need a blanc machine to deploy it on, not just your laptop…

But the OVF standard works pretty good on importing images on any VirtualBox instance, not even depending on the host OS.

And of course, Windows guest OS would be nice, but expensive. Fortunately a lot (if not most) Oracle software is first delevered on a Linux basis.

Yesterday I created a ubuntu plus XE and APEX image on my mac, and then deployed it on my Vista machine running VirtualBox, no problems there.

What do you think?

Regards and thanks!

Douwe Pieter

]]> By: Edwin Biemond http://www.ome-b.nl/2010/05/20/how-virtualbox-could-create-opportunities-for-oracle-and-it%e2%80%99s-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-465 Edwin Biemond Thu, 20 May 2010 11:51:12 +0000 http://www.ome-b.nl/2010/05/20/how-virtualbox-could-create-opportunities-for-oracle-and-it%e2%80%99s-partners/#comment-465 Hi Douwe, is not that easy, first there are a lot of images , oracle vm guest os, no virtualbox. and it has to be linux because of the license , windows would be better but that is not license free. thanks Hi Douwe,

is not that easy, first there are a lot of images , oracle vm guest os, no virtualbox. and it has to be linux because of the license , windows would be better but that is not license free.

thanks

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