I am glad to report that I now have the Oracle VM software running a virtual Oracle Linux R4 update 5 guest running within a domain. It would be nice to say that I pulled this off via some smarts unique to me but that would be a lie. The folks at Oracle have released several paravirtualized guests which I downloaded from this site. Since my IBM T43 laptop is pre-dual-core technology I can't use hardware virtualization. Bummer since I didn't have enough time to figure out how to create a paravirtualized guest image on my own. Now I can just download it and avoid that work which is nice. Virtualization is really convenient for me since I want to be able to switch between environments for:
- Siebel CRM instance using Oracle 10g DB
- Oracle SOA Suite with BI Publisher, AIA, and Oracle 10g DB
- Oracle 11G DB and Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Technology Previews
