Category: Oracle

November 15

Little bit cynical or not?

Anyway after downloading Oracle VM Server 2.1, unzipping it, it was installed in a breeze. It is delivered as a ISO so I mounted the ISO under the CD ROM of a VMware guest, configured as described below. The guest I used was a VMware Server guest based on RedHat 4 (32b).

So I used the following:

  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 host (32b)
  • 1.5 Gb RAM
  • 20 Gb extensible HD
  • Network: NAT
  • 1 CPU
November 14
November 5

Tomorrows presentation at AMIS, will be my first test run for my UKOUG presentation in December, Birmingham. It took me a while to get the red herring from my braincells onto a Powerpoint presentation. To be honest, I am still not really pleased with it. It lacks some coherency, but I almost now for sure that it will be there when I start of and introduce my audience into the wonderful (sometimes confusing) world of XMLDB.

I will address a lot of DBA viewpoints on to the matter.

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